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01-16-2009, 01:10 AM | #1 |
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Author dropped by publisher after legal threats releases book on web
"A former British ambassador to Uzbekistan has made the follow-up to his bestselling memoir Murder in Samarkand available for free online after it was dropped by his publisher following legal threats."
More at: http://tinyurl.com/craig-murray-uzbekistan |
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And here's the author's explanation, with a link buy the pbook:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archiv...e_catholi.html also http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archiv..._orange_1.html And there's a link to the book (in pdf format) halway down this page: http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archiv...s_schilli.html |
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Thanks, Patricia. I couldn't find it the book anywhere until I came back to read your post.
Is this an example of what they used to call samizdat? (sp) Regards, Alex |
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Well, samizdat literally means "self-publishing", although its usual use is to refer to the more or less clandestine self-publishing efforts necessary in a climate of political oppression by the government prevalent in the former Soviet Union. So it's not quite what's happening here.
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