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Originally Posted by koland
It does look as though this "publisher" has decided to add DRM, though -- almost laughable for what he has grabbed as purportedly public domain (which would be the only reason he is able to publish it, as I suspect the price would be considerably higher if rights had been obtained, assuming they are required for these particular stories ... it's likely the rights have lapsed due to the magazines failing to renew, but it would take a bit of research to determine that).
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Because I'm nosy, I checked them out. The most vaunted author on the Trilogus site, who will also be the artist on the first Trilogus music CD, actually owns the Trilogus web site. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that. I'm just always irked when someone creates a publishing company to publish themselves and then tries to hide it. If they are honest about it, it doesn't bother me at all. It can be a great way for a few authors to get together and maybe start something awesome. The only problem is that very few authors make really good publishers. In this case, they are trying to be a media company - books, music, movies. They are soliciting "quality submissions" on the site.
According to the site, they only sell on Amazon, but I can see they have stuff on B&N, and they also have a few things on Smashwords. In fact, the copy I got from B&N is a modified Smashwords version - it has the "if you want to share buy more copies on Smashwords" message in it - although it is no longer for sale on Smashwords.
Also, this particular book doesn't have a publisher listed on Amazon - which again makes me wonder about the publishing rights. They are listed as publisher on their other books that I checked, but not this one.
What? I said I was nosy.
EDITED to avoid starting a new post - There are renewals on file for some of CAS's work, and one of those renewals was for a volume containing some of these stories. I am NOT looking them all up, but it seems to be more than a few. So, at least some of them are still under copyright: 28 year term + 47 year renewal + 20 year auto extension, which puts some of them into the mid-to-late 2020's before copyright expires.