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Old 10-16-2013, 06:48 AM   #257
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
SF Gateway have the skylark and d'alembert ones so I suspect it's only a matter of time before they release the rest.

Given the vast number of books that weren't commercially viable to reprint, it will take time for them to be digitised, but, as near as I can tell things are heading toward everything being available as eBooks (there is certainly a huge number more backlist titles now available than there were a few years ago and this trens shows no signs of slowing down). So, as hard as it may seem in this instant gratification time, things look like they will sort themselves out so just wait a bit. Transition periods are, by definition, transitory.
That's the point...Skylark is in the Public Domain. Lensman isn't. As for the d'alambert ones, those weren't even written by E.E. Smith--they are fan fiction written by Stephen Goldin, based on a family in a short story that was written by Smith.

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