Re: Internet piracy spreads from music to books
- From: "richard seltzer" <seltzer@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Internet piracy spreads from music to books
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:38:10 -0400
From: J Flenner
To: Book People Mailing List
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:27 PM
Subject: [BP] Internet piracy spreads from music to books
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3J98FDPQC&live=true&tagid=FTDDMJNIFEC&subheading=internet%20and%20e-commerce
Internet piracy spreads from music to books
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Thanks for the pointer. The last paragraph is amazing:
"The e-book industry is still small with traditional publishers
experimenting on ways to make money. Penguin, the consumer publisher, is
making its classic titles such as Jane Austen's Emma available online from
next month for 2.50 [UK pounds] a copy. By the end of the year, it hopes
to have 200 e-books."
Good grief! Two and a half pounds for an electronic copy of a public domain
book! At those rates, Project Gutenberg would be a multi-billion-dollar
business...
Best wishes.
Richard
Richard Seltzer, seltzer@[redacted] www.samizdat.com
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