[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Purpose in Your Eyes
- From: "Donna Goodin" <goodindo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:56:29 -0400
No. I don't get your point. If a book is out of print, you *can't* purchase
it. I see that as being similar to the Pub domain books. You're not
depriving anyone of royalties etc. because there aren't any to be had. In
that case, I think Bookshare or PG are logical alternatives for the blind
user.
Best,
Donna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Purpose in Your Eyes
> At 03:25 PM 6/9/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >5. Even if you choose to pay for you Bookshare membership, that
money
> >goes
> > > >to Bookshare. Neither the author nor the publisher get any of it.
That
> > > >starts to look pretty significant if someone is downloading 100 books
a
> > > >month.
>
> Hi. I have one question though. What if a book is out of print? Let us
> take a book from the 1970's or 1960's. Who gets money from that? Not the
> publishers since they don't publish it now. Not the authors because they
> are most often paid by the publishers. The libraries, maybe? I doubt it,
> really. OK, we better remove every out of print title, especially all
> those science fiction books. Sorry Paul Edwards and others, your scans
are
> not allowed because they could not be bought from the publisher. My point
> here is to be absurd. I doubt if someone will throw away abook because it
> is out of print, but the publishers make nothing from them. The
publishers
> make nothing from bookshare.org either. Do you see the paralel here?
>
>
>
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