[laveer]

I read Fire Upon the Deep earlier this year and it blew me away.

If you want to read his work, please buy a copy instead of using archive. Or borrow a copy from your local library. Authors still get royalties with libraries that use catalogs like Overdrive and Gardner, as most municipal libraries do.

Vinge is still with us and he deserves to get paid for his work.

[vilhelm_s]

U.S. public libraries do not give any royalties to the author when lending physical books, so in that sense "borrowing" the book from the Archive is not different than borrowing it from a library. There is indeed a trend of treating ebooks differently, but I'm not convinced that's a good idea---it seems like yet another example of strengthening the position of copyright holders over the public.