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? > > >