Re: Internet piracy spreads from music to books
- From: Tony Kline <tonykline@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Internet piracy spreads from music to books
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:11:28 -0700 (PDT)
Dear All,
Penguin might also like to make available all the Classics in
translation they have been stealthily withdrawing from their Penguin
Classics library over the last few years....because they don't sell
enough.....and maybe its time for them to get a few new translations
to replace those fifty year old ones they are still hawking around.....
demise of a once great idea...I thought they were great when I was
a kid...but nothing's happened since the original editors with the good id
eas died or faded out...just don't get it these guys do they...? Ha ha!
P..S 2.50 isn't that many dollars any more....(sigh)...but it's still
a lot more than FREE!! They must be crazy...let's hope no one is stupid
enough to buy any. Thanks for the entertainment Richard.
Cheers
Tony
> 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