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The author Antonia Fraser also does this - she includes masses of real facts in her historical books and one bogus one. So I will never read her books, as I would always be wondering, is this true, or not?
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06-26-2020, 03:17 PM | #17 |
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Not sure what kind of glitch it was in Google Maps but near me, there is a short stub of street which ends in a pedestrian bridge joining to another short stub on the other side with the same street name. Google Maps showed this as if you could drive from one side to the other.
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Unless I'm wrong (and I'm wrong often) I think what can be copyrighted when republishing a book in the public domain, is any additional material the publisher adds, like a new introduction, or new insights on the author's life, etc. – something original. I think I've also seen the layout (fonts, margins, etc.) copyrighted – which wouldn't mean much in an ePub or Mobi eBook. |
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06-27-2020, 11:29 AM | #21 |
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Yes, even the King James Bible you'd buy today is copyright due to the layout. Copyright free versions are either scans of older versions or reprints of Matthew Henry, or OCR. Because the actual text content is not copyright.
This is why reprints are often reset, perhaps have new illustrations etc and almost never simply facsimile reprints of an edition now in the public domain. Sadly it's also why they rarely put older works back into print (copyright or not) because the setup costs are about the same as new publication. So they rarely adopt POD except for high value academic/technical works. The big publishers are a little "broken" and actually giving away market to Amazon and some independents. The only "electronic" format that much interests them is Audio books because the entry barrier is higher for the self-published or small independent compared to eBooks and also because it's got over 20% growth (due to commuting, jogging, gyms, cycling). The cost for a Traditional Publisher isn't much different, with lower final publishing, storage and distribution costs than paper. Also they don't mind Amazon's Audible dominating it because regular bookshops traditionally didn't do audio books. It's great for partially sighted and blind as traditionally few titles were on disc, cassette and CD. They used to have special tape cartridges produced by the charities for the blind that were operated on a kind of library basis. |
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Outside the UK, the text is in the public domain. |
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06-28-2020, 10:59 AM | #23 |
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As an example from ONE of Forrest Reid's books, his "Uncle Stephen" is copyright by the Estate of Forrest Reid, and reprinted by permission of the Queen's University Belfast. (The Introduction, as mentioned and alluded to in many of the previous posts is a separate copyright; and it is copyright by the author, Andrew Doyle [Publisher: Valancourt].)
You may wish to do some additional checking on this author before committing to Mobileread. Last edited by Dr. Drib; 06-28-2020 at 11:19 AM. Reason: deleted - [not part of the series you mention] |
06-28-2020, 11:10 AM | #24 |
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Forrest Reid died in 1947. He books were, therefore, still in copyright in the EU until 1st January 2018. Unless your book is a very recent edition, that would explain the copyright notice.
Any of his works are welcome in the MobileRead library, so long as they don't include any in-copyright introduction or other notes. |
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06-28-2020, 05:40 PM | #26 |
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I'm uncertain what those previous 'unpublished materials' are, so I don't know. (It may be that ONLY the unpublished materials - the drawing by Reid, along with the Introduction - consists of new copyrighted materials.)
The Introduction, as you mention, is copyright by the author; and, further (as you state) it will not be used anyway. |
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Posthumously published works are tricky. It depends on the country.
In the USA, they have life+70 if published after 2002. So the same as works published during the author's lifetime. In the UK, the copyright for previously unpublished works by Forrest Reid last until 1st January 2040, as he died before 1st January 1969. Other countries will have different rules. For uploading to MobileRead, you'd need to make sure that your copy didn't include any material that was only published after his death. |
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