[lit-ideas] Re: What's THIS ?!?
- From: Thomas Hart <tehart@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:18:33 -0400
I think the restriction refers to performance, not to reading passages to your
sweetie.
My son gave my wife and I Kindles for Christmas. As a result we've changed our
book buying habits to a large extent, and buy e-books from Amazon a good deal.
Many of the Penguin classics and the Oxford World Classics are available as
e-books, and many university presses have e-books available at far less than
their outrageous hardcover and softcover prices. The exceptions include
Princeton, which is still selling paperback volumes of Kierkegaard at $50-60
rather than at more modest Kindle prices.
"All women are created equal.
Then some become Marines"
Katy Perry video for "Part of me"
Thomas Hart
tehart@xxxxxxx
On Apr 10, 2012, at 3:19 PM, cblists@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I don't have, but - until I read the following - had been considering
> purchasing, an electronic book 'reader'.
>
> In searching the Internet for William Gaddis' AGAPE, AGAPE, I noticed the
> following 'additional details' appended to the listing for the Adobe eBooks
> edition:
>
> Adobe PDF eBook Rights
> Copying not allowed
> Printing not allowed
> Lending not allowed
> Reading aloud not allowed
>
> The first two or three seem straightforward enough (the lending restriction
> seems a bit severe; it's hard to imagine not lending out a book).
>
> BUT can it possibly be true that, should I purchase an eBook copy of this (or
> any other book with similar 'rights' attached), I would be agreeing (in a
> legally binding way) that I would not read the book aloud to a friend / loved
> one / family member?
>
> Do people actually, by buying such eBooks, agree to such a restriction in
> (what to me is an essential component in) the life of a piece of literature?
>
> Chris Bruce,
> more thankful than ever for his
> 'outsider borrowing privileges'
> at the local university library, in
> Kiel, Germany
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