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Originally Posted by jplumey
I am really interested in the Doc Savage stories but I'm having a hard time finding them. Any ideas?
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I'm going to phrase what I say very carefully. Some of the stories are in the public domain in certain countries. There are 9 Laurence Donovan Doc Savage stories on Project Gutenberg Austrailia. They are
not public domain in the US. (Laurence Donovan died in 1950.) There are another 14 that are public domain in current life + 50 countries. (Example - Canada) I forget which writers did them off the top of my head. The main writer of Doc Savage (around 140 of them) was Lester Dent, who died in 1959. They will go P.D. in Life + 50 in January. However, I doubt that any Life + 50 web site will host them, due to Conde Nast's aggressive copyright stance.
If you like p-books (I own the complete set, all 182 of 'em), try E-Bay. They always have some for sale.
There are "pirate" CD copies floating around, based on the old Black Mask copyright battle years ago, they exist, but are illegal. (I have heard rumors that they have excellent proofing and contain original illustrations, but I wouldn't know.)