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Re: speaking of copyright



--- "Osier, Nina" <Nina.Osier@STATE.ME.US> wrote:
>
> Neil, I know what you mean.  I'm always amazed (no matter how many
> times it
> happens to me) when people expect to download my electronically
> published
> novels free, because of the format, although they'd never think of
> expecting
> me to present them with free paperbacks of the same titles...

I say the same thing to people who complain about fee-based databases
such as ancestry.com.

If information wants to be free, how come they charge for books and
magazines at Waldenborders & Noble?

  -C.


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