[bookshare-discuss] Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection. . .
- From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:06:40 -0700
About Norman Rose, you're kidding? I spotted a few readers other places but
missed that one. ----- source message -----
from: "duane iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
to: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
date: 2008/03/10 22:31:14
subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy
Protection. . .
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>
> nobody did Nero Wolf better then Ralph Bell. I was also endlessly amused as a
> boy to Hear Norman Rose who is probably about as Latin American as I am doing
> the voice for Juan Valdez in the coffee commercial. The book The Electric
> Coolade Acid Test is on RC by Tom Wolf is read by Leon Janning.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:58 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy
> Protection. . .
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:07 AM
> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy
> > Protection. . .
> >
> >
> > Leon Janning the guy with a sneer in his voice,
> > who read the book about Babe Ruth, "babe, the legend comes to life," could
> > actually hear him wheze, but fantastic read.
> > Gordon Gould, who always sounded so serious.
> > acts too, in "star wars," on NPR, in "the empire strikes back," as one of
> > the drivers of the walkers.
> > Mitzi Friedlander, who sounded like everyone's mother, then everyone's
> > grandmother.
> > read all of the Sue Grafton books, and gradually actually would say the F
> > word. :) Grandma, shouldn't talk like that?
> > And, Alexander Scourby, who could read anything and make it sound beautiful.
> > amen to that, even gentle satire like "the mallot diaries," from 1965.
> > Robert Donley, could do about anything, Westerns, SF, fantastic.
> > How about Ralph Bell doing Nero Wolf, or Carl Weber, also, doing Nero Wolf?
> > :) Carl Weber reading "Hotel," by Arthur Hailey, which I have.
> > But, we're straying off topic for this list, sorry!
> >
> > Curtis Delzer
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "lana" <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:35 PM
> > Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy
> > Protection. . .
> >
> >
> >> Obviously you're a science fiction fan. No one picked up a sense of
> >> amazement like Robert Donley, but we are both dating ourselves by knowing
> >> about him. Many of those old (in time, not age) NLS readers were
> >> something special. ----- source message -----
> >> from: "duane iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> to: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> date: 2008/03/09 18:15:43
> >> subject: [bookshare-discuss] comments on Publishers Phase Out Piracy
> >> Protection. . .
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Beginning in late 1999, Jim Baen began selling books on the Webscription
> >>> service of Baen Books. He never used DRM, didn't believe in it, sold the
> >>> books in a half a dozen formats usable to anyone who had a computer with
> >>> a word processor even if the only thing you had was internet explorer.
> >>> Eric Flint has been arguing in every issue of the online Science Fiction
> >>> Magazine Jim Baen's Universe against Mindless copyright restrictions and
> >>> DRM.
> >>> Messer's Baen and Flint paved the way. it's nice to see other publishers
> >>> slowly coming around to their way of thinking. My guess is that dropping
> >>> DRM will actually increase the sale of audio books over what it would
> >>> have been with DRM left in place.
> >>> My guess also is that many sighted audio book listeners will become
> >>> devotees of an audio book reader and may began buying books as much by
> >>> who reads the book as who wrote it.
> >>> How many of us old blind guys would order any book read by Robert donley
> >>> just because Mr. Donley was such a grate reader.
> >>> But as DRM dies, I hope it dies: And more and more books become available
> >>> in Blind Friendly Formats we have Jim Baen to thank probably more then
> >>> anyone out side the Blindness Community.
> >>> Old Jim did it for the money. of course that's why Bell invented the
> >>> Telephone and Edison invented the record player.
> >>>
> >>> Sincerely Yours:
> >>> Duane Iverson
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