10-26-2015, 05:42 AM | #16 |
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10-26-2015, 06:22 AM | #17 |
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I've given up all hope of Takami Kōshun's Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル) ever being available digitally in my location (and I don't circumvent geo-blocks). According to GoodReads, there are three ebook editions in circulation; it's incredibly unfortunate that I don't have legal access to any of them.
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My Japanese is fairly patchy. I'll eventually "suck it up" and buy the book, in English and on paper.
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10-26-2015, 07:45 AM | #20 |
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None of the Little House books is PD in the US, including Big Woods. Except for the posthumous The First Four Years, they are PD in Canada and MR used to host them, absent the Garth Williams illustrations, of course.
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10-26-2015, 08:31 AM | #21 |
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United States Destroyer Operations in World War II
I have the first edition in Hardcover. I would like it in ebook, but I doubt that will ever happen. Apache |
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Specialist books like this are probably unlikely to ever make it as ebooks; the cost of the conversion wouldn't be economically viable. The same is true for most of my Egyptology books.
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10-26-2015, 08:48 AM | #23 |
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Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
I'm not holding my breath for that as an ebook (I would certainly asphyxiate), but I am holding on to my dead tree version with the disintegrating pages... |
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The text of the books will be PD in life+70 countries in 2018, and in the US starting from 2028.
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Hey - so in 2028 The Little House in the Big Woods will be PD in the US as well as in life+70 countries. |
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10-26-2015, 12:32 PM | #28 |
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Robert Caro's The Powerbroker--was really surprised when it was finally issued in the UK this year, but without an e-book version.
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I've given up on the complete Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust ever coming out as eBooks. The series was moved to a different publisher and some of the first books are not in eBook and most likely never will be.
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