Really, I can see the harm in copying a workbook that Ive paid for. Why isn permission to copy given routinely?
When book users write to publishers or authors for permission to copy, those requests customarily are to copy a passage or page, generally for use as a quotation in an article or a book. It would be extraordinarily unusual, for example, for someone to ask Ignatius Press’ permission to make copies of two or three of their books specifically because they didn’t want to purchase a copy, and even more unusual for Ignatius Press to grant permission. Imagine someone stepping into Walden Books and asking permission to copy one of their novels instead of buying it. If permission were granted, not only would the bookstore go out of business, but so would their publishers and authors. In essence, asking permission to copy an entire book is the same as asking a business to give away free copies. Again, permissions to copy are generally granted for brief passages used as quotations in articles, or in other books.
