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From: Carl Bostek (no email)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2007 - 04:05:28 EDT
Most e-Texts are out of copyright. Check out the Gutenberg Project. Others
can be purchased, however publishers seem to be resisting making texts
available in electronic format.
Finally there are pirated texts available. Such texts are almost as hard to
find as legal copies.
Considering that publishers have all their manuscripts in electronic format
these days it would clearly be cheaper and more eco-friendly to sell them
directly in that format. Instead we have to buy printed copies, read them
and then discard them. Hopefully by trading so they're not wasted.
Perhaps one of these days the publishers will wake up and offer e-texts at
the same kind of discount prices you can get in brick & mortar stores. I
paid about $18 for the 7th Harry Potter novel at Costco. I would happily
have paid that amount for a legal e-text version.
Cheers,
Carl
S/V Aphrodite
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