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Originally Posted by OBW
I'm sitting in an office that is not in the city I live in. I won't be here tomorrow. And I seldom do this from home. So they will have difficulty tracking me down, although since I suspect that they have someone(s) scanning these sites, I suspect they know who I am and that I sometimes read their materials and sometimes quote from it. I am fairly comfortable that the fair use rules cover that. They allow me to read all I want. And the reason I can never find anything again is that I have to go back online and scan through unsearchable, and unnumbered pages to find it again — by sight. So it is doubtful I have anything to be concerned about.
Funny thing that you can read this stuff for free and yet they are so determined that their insiders buy it, even demanding that churches have standing orders that often exceed any reasonable estimation of demand. Of course, that may be so that they can put this little hook out there for free. And who could resist page-turners like The Application of the Interpretation of the New Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers, or The Dispensing, Transformation and Building of the Processed Divine Trinity in the Believers. I'm ready to place an order for at least one copy of all of it. (And if you look on the bookshelves of many of the LRCers, you see the effects of this. Volumes of books. Too many to really read. But not too many to sell.)
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Printed books are quickly going the way of the dodo. Is LSM prepared to face this harsh reality? I have heard some brothers encourage saints to buy the printed versions of books rather than read the online version, in order to help out LSM. As revenue from book sales declines, how are they going to compensate? Maybe by increasing the required training "donation" fee?