06-05-2011, 01:00 PM | #16 | |
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That's particularly egregious considering that a lot of Hemmingway stories and books are packaged in American Lit texts. |
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06-05-2011, 03:38 PM | #17 | |
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I just watched Tron: Legacy, and the wonderful internet connectivity was used for the awesomeness of COMMERCIALS on the disc menu screen. Up and coming features, and the like. This is AFTER I watched the friggin previews on the disc. If only Netflix streaming actually looked as good as a blu-ray... I'd skip this whole buying media from the studios thing. |
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06-05-2011, 04:22 PM | #18 |
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Faulkner and Hemingway are really living it up --somewhere-- with all the money coming in from their ebook and paperback sales!
How do publishers get these rights? |
06-05-2011, 05:38 PM | #19 |
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More interestingly, who is profiting from them?
I'm serious. Does Faulkner/Hemmingway have a descendent that is getting paid for these copies, or is it all just going into the Knopf Official Money Pile? (I could Wiki it, but I must feed the cats now. And I'm lazy. So there's that.) |
06-05-2011, 07:42 PM | #20 |
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Both Hemingway and Faulkner had children, one of Hemingway's is still alive. It's probably harder to find out who controls the literary estate. For example, in the US, I think that the rights to some famous author, IIRC Arthur Conan Doyle, ended up owned by the ex-husband and/or step-children of one of author's daughters. I'm sure that ended well.
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06-05-2011, 08:32 PM | #21 |
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Interesting. Pretty sure Doyle's son died in a war -- I remember reading something about him spending a lot of money on seances and the like later in life; I didn't know he had a surviving daughter.
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06-05-2011, 08:55 PM | #22 |
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WW1 - and, unsurprisingly, it changed a lot of his views and affected many things he did in later life especially an interest in Spiritualism and allied things...
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