Katharina Buczek
First, two people ended up buying the PDF version from her. But then, she received a very angry email from another student– who claimed that it was awful of her to be profiting off of other students who were already struggling. Plus, they told her that she should be ashamed of herself.
Now, she kept her cool and calmly responded to the email sender– explaining how she had purchased her own version and was not “getting rich off of broke students.”
Still, though, she just could not understand why the emailer was so offended. After all, she was selling the PDF for only $5– which she thinks is incredibly cheap. Plus, the semester had already been going on for over three weeks.
This situation became even worse just four days later, though. At that point, another student in her class apparently located a free version of the PDF online and decided to send a link to it in her same email thread.
So now, she feels really bad and has been left wondering if selling a PDF copy of a textbook that wound up being available online for free made her a real jerk.
Do you think she had good intentions when she offered to sell her PDF version for $5? How could she have known that there was a free version available if she could not find it? Would you have done the same thing? Or would you have provided your classmates with the PDF for free?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
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