The BW Book Inititave

Monday morning I ran across this thread by author Adam Silvera.

There is no apology I will accept for supporting book piracy. Please trust authors when we tell you we are all losing at least tens of thousands of dollars because of book piracy. And these downloads DO NOT count as book sales and can risk our careers. pic.twitter.com/S2DzQjVaAa

— ADAM 🌈 (@AdamSilvera) July 23, 2018

As most of us know, he has written very popular queer fiction such as More Happy Than Not and They Both Die At the End. In this thread, Silvera was talking specifically about book piracy and how wrong it is. How that takes money out of his pocket. In response, I wrote my own thread.

Okay. This morning I saw a post from Adam Silvera about book pirating. I would never take money out of an author’s pocket but I have pirated movies and music in the past. However, I don’t advocate pirating. I know a lot of people suggested libraries.

— BW Reviews (@BWReviewsBlog) July 23, 2018

As the day went on, I saw Silvera getting more and more frustrated with people defending pirating for similar reasons. He acknowledges that some people don’t have access to and/or money for books and they shouldn’t steal them. I agree.

But. This is an international problem that there isn’t much being done about.

I want to do something.

For months now, I’ve had the idea of doing an international lending library. I want to be able to send books to those who can’t afford them and don’t have access to them for free. Now, this is clearly going to be a big project and it’s quite overwhelming honestly, but I personally know how powerful and important books can be.

By no means, is this an attack on Adam or anyone who supports or disagrees with him. I was simply tired of seeing an argument and no solution.

I’m not trying to end book pirating or save the world. I just think books should be accessible for everyone. No matter how much you make, where you live, or any other reason outside your control.

This is why we want to do something to help with whatever small reach we have. To gauge responses, we made a survey to find out some details about your life. It’s completely anonymous! We just want to know if there’s a want or need for this. If there is an interest, we would set up some sort of system to take requests or donations.

But first, please take our survey down below!! We really want to find out what you all think about it. Thank you!

Reading isn’t something that should be reserved for who can afford it.
– Chantel

— BW Reviews (@BWReviewsBlog) July 23, 2018

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