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dadioflex · 04-18-2012, 03:56 AM

I posted a while back about my annoyance that wiki articles were getting turned into books and, while I'm still not a fan of that idea, Harry and others pretty much made me realise that it's perfectly legitimate.

Then today I had a recommendation pop up on Amazon about a Sci-Fi megapack of 25 short stories for 49p - and I was about to get snotty again, because a quick search confirmed these are all PD works... but then I thought 49p... all formatted for Kindle so what's the harm? I spend more than 49p eating snacks, while deciding what ACTUAL snacks I'm going to buy.

So, this has surely been asked before but a cursory search revealed nothing - but why doesn't MR get into this racket to help fund the site? The raw material is already there, right? And if MR was doing it there would be a stamp of quality on the product, while spreading word of the site to the general Kindle populace. Also, "Mobileread" is a hell of a brand if you think about it.

I would, of course, be willing to help out with general good wishes, sacrifices to the gods, and other such acts which don't require any real effort on my part.

04-18-2012, 03:56 AM	#1
dadioflex Dyslexic Count Posts: 526 Karma: 5041991 Join Date: Aug 2008 Device: Palm TX, Advent Vega, iPad, iPod Touch, Kindle	Why doesn't Mobileread get into publishing? I posted a while back about my annoyance that wiki articles were getting turned into books and, while I'm still not a fan of that idea, Harry and others pretty much made me realise that it's perfectly legitimate. Then today I had a recommendation pop up on Amazon about a Sci-Fi megapack of 25 short stories for 49p - and I was about to get snotty again, because a quick search confirmed these are all PD works... but then I thought 49p... all formatted for Kindle so what's the harm? I spend more than 49p eating snacks, while deciding what ACTUAL snacks I'm going to buy. So, this has surely been asked before but a cursory search revealed nothing - but why doesn't MR get into this racket to help fund the site? The raw material is already there, right? And if MR was doing it there would be a stamp of quality on the product, while spreading word of the site to the general Kindle populace. Also, "Mobileread" is a hell of a brand if you think about it. I would, of course, be willing to help out with general good wishes, sacrifices to the gods, and other such acts which don't require any real effort on my part.