Amazing reaction to free book

In an attempt to make his book free, Glenn Fleischman, co author of Real World Adobe GoLive 6, made the book free on his web site, which may end up costing him a good deal more than he ever got from writing the book. "It's a financial catastrophe," said Fleischman. "I'm a working stiff with a mortgage ... I never suspected the penalty would be so high for giving something away.... It's like living in Singapore and getting 15 years in jail for chewing gum." Fleischman had begun asking for donations to alleviate the costs. "Fleischman posted the book in PDF format on the evening of March 18. It wasn't until the morning of March 20 that he realized how much traffic it was attracting. He pulled the file, but by that time he was liable for downloads of about 250 GB of data."(Wired)