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You can do anything you wish with a work that's in the public domain, including publishing it, selling it, etc. |
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However, if you'll look next time you're in the bookstore, those PD books are usually priced a good deal lower than more recent stuff. The exceptions there will be ones which include a lot of literary supporting material (footnotes, explanations, commentary, etc.), in those cases the extra price covers that material. If you want to start your own e-publishing house for PD books go right ahead. |
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04-30-2008, 03:43 PM | #19 |
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Duh..never thought about Shakespeare or Dickens being public domain. I guess it really opened my eyes being able to compare free (donation-supported) websites vs. for-profit booksellers for books. When only pbooks were available the choices were buy it or borrow it.
I have conflicting feelings about this subject and the long-term effects of buying public domain books from a bookseller. I do agree that special editions or ebooks that took extra effort on the publishers part require payment. Thanks for turning on the light bulb for me.. Also, I have no plans on quitting the day job anytime soon.. |
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As for the long-term effects ... this has been going on for decades -- I think we've seen any long-term effects we're likely to. I'm more concerned with the long-term effect of ebooks on bookstores, myself. |
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*whole different sack of knots. but i might take my curse off you someday. we'll see. |
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I've long regarded all threats as empty: I figure if they were going to really do it, they wouldn't mouth about it, they'd just carry them out. It's the approach I follow anyway, and why I always make a point of making my own threats patently ludicrous.
For instance when I was working a couple of summers at a youth camp during college (11~13 year olds), I'd threaten to glue their cheeks together, wait a moment for them to draw the obvious conclusion, then inform them that I didn't mean those cheeks. Then I'd follow up with: "in front." They never took it seriously, of course, but it usually diverted them from whatever they were doing that I wanted them to stop, and that was the whole point. |
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Easy Zelda and Nat. Just teasing off of one of Zelda's posts...
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I'm adding "a whole different sack of knots" to my list of colloquialisms.
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i'm still going to keep the glue far away from you, just in case. although there is something you have to admire about a threat that is "patently ludicrous." maybe we could start a list of those as well. |
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Most of mine have a decided "country" flavor, mostly "American" Southern and Texan, so they tend to be a bit earthy. Here's one of my favorites, it's properly applied to folks who are perceived as not doing the job they should be doing: "They're just standin' around with their teeth in their mouth." |
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I've copied these posts to a new thread in the Lounge entitled "Colloquiallisms [threatens to be Unutterably Silly]" -- let's continue this discussion there, so we don't hijack yet another thread.
We now return the rest of you to your previous discussion of copyright questions. |
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since i'm sure all of you have been refreshing this thread impatiently (and in vain) every 5 minutes for the past 2 weeks, here's the latest news, still hot from the presses :
i've just received a mail from the person i contacted at Corvina Press letting me know that she is still waiting for a reply from her colleague, and will let me know as soon as she has some information. there may yet be hope... |
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all that for nothing.
i have received yet another reply in the saga of my quest to determine the copyright status of the book by Karinthy :
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again, i say that if ever there were an argumant in favor of reforming copyright / orphan works laws, this case is it. |
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