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Bob Russell · 12-30-2004, 10:13 PM

Rob,
An interesting site. With a quick browse, I didn't see much about the sources of books. It looked like one of the free ones was Gutenberg text. Is that generally the source for the free ones?

How about the $1 books. What kinds of books are those? Anything we might recognize? I'd be interested to see people publish some ebooks that are the big sellers at the time of whatever happened to be going on at the time to make it interesting, but maybe has less interest at the regular bricks and mortar bookstores because it's not the hot topic anymore. Or maybe even some of the oldest novels from some of the names we might recognize. I realize that publishers and authors are pretty tightly controlling their content, but is that sort of thing possible?

Thanks, and good luck with your e-store.

12-30-2004, 10:13 PM	#2
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	Rob, An interesting site. With a quick browse, I didn't see much about the sources of books. It looked like one of the free ones was Gutenberg text. Is that generally the source for the free ones? How about the $1 books. What kinds of books are those? Anything we might recognize? I'd be interested to see people publish some ebooks that are the big sellers at the time of whatever happened to be going on at the time to make it interesting, but maybe has less interest at the regular bricks and mortar bookstores because it's not the hot topic anymore. Or maybe even some of the oldest novels from some of the names we might recognize. I realize that publishers and authors are pretty tightly controlling their content, but is that sort of thing possible? Thanks, and good luck with your e-store.