15 Dec
2018
15 Dec
'18
10:14 a.m.
On Dec 14, 2018, at 11:54 PM, Randy Dawson
<rdawson16 at hotmail.com> wrote:
Zane, your comments are appreciated.
I have paid for subscriptions to ebooks that cost ~10 a month, and they are OK for text,
but when a schematic comes up, it sucks (scribd) you cant zoom or increase the
resolution.
I also follow you on your purchase experience with out of print and search.
I am dumb or spend hours on search, then find it and think everybody already knows but
me. Most recent all the Dr. Dobbs and Byte, Pop Sci online I only found recently.
I suppose there is money to be made if you can check in your morals. I see all this
(now) public domain type stuff (including Al's bitsavers manuals) for sale on ebay
DVDs.
The unwashed will be relieved from their dollars.
Randy
Now you?re touching on something that really ticks me off, and I?ve seen it done using
Google Books, and others (the book I bought before I knew what was going on was done using
a Google Books scan). That?s the growing market on ?Print On Demand? books done using
these scans. Many of these books are still covered under the original copywrite. And of
course, there are the folks selling the CD?s and DVD?s on eBay.
The people offering ?reproductions" for sale in these fashions harm the community as
a whole.
It also makes it rather challenging to find original copies for sale, as you have to wade
through so many of these offerings.
Zane