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Originally Posted by pwalker8
"Finally, I owe a special debt of thanks to Melissa Houle, one of the Web mistresses from www.rhemuthcastle.com, who scanned me the text from her beloved copy of Deryni Rising and probably broke its spine in the process. These first three books, and the three books of the Camber Trilogy, were all written on a typewriter, with carbon copies, in the dark ages before personal computers and word processing. Her kindness has saved me many hours of retyping the manuscript, so that preparing this edition took far less time out of my work on the next new Deryni novel. Another fan has already scanned Deryni Checkmate for me, and I have no doubt that a digital copy of High Deryni will be ready by the time I need to crank it through my machine." |
I remember seeing this and wondering if perhaps her kind friend had downloaded a pirated copy. Ms. Kurtz probably doesn't need to know that, if so.
It just seems like a little karma to me, if authors can benefit from the piracy of their work (which is often justified because something isn't 'in print') to get an ebook edition published.