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A response to a comment on my e-book post

Posted in books, tagged , , , , on February 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I started writing a response to Chad’s comment on my post E-books and illegal file sharing, but halfway through I realized my response was longer than some of my actual blog posts.  So I’m just gonna put it out here on its own.   More after the jump.

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E-books and illegal file sharing

Posted in books, tagged , , on January 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I very much liked this post about the ethics of file-sharing, especially of e-books: http://deepad.dreamwidth.org/61462.html Obviously, as an independent bookseller, I am in favor of physical copies of books. But there’s a lot to chew over in this space; e-books vs. paper books; illegally sharing e-books vs. using the library or buying used books. As [...]

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Alice’s Adventures in the Public Domain

Posted in books, tagged , , , , on March 6, 2010 |

I’m going to see the new Alice in Wonderland movie tonight, like everybody else, and it looks pretty cool. I like the visual style and the humor seems right u p my alley. But it got me thinking – about copyright. Yeah, you know, like you do.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland were published almost 150 years ago, in 1865. There have been hundreds of plays, movies, fan sequels, music, and more riffed off of this material. Pretend for a moment that none of that ever existed, because the law said that Charles Dodgson’s estate should continue to control that work forever.

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Books on Kindle

Posted in books, tagged , , , , on July 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been considering getting a Kindle (an e-book reader from Amazon.com) for some time now. Much as I love paper books (and an entire wall of my house attests to just how much I do!) there is something alluring about the prospect of carrying my library around on a single device. But I have some [...]

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