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ebook sites
(updated April 4, 04)
1. FictionWise,
multi formats one stop
shopping site, include non fiction and exclusive short fictions.
2. BlackMask,
the best free ebook site in several
formats.
3. PeanutPress, award winning ebook store
for PDA, friendly DRM solutions.
4. Execubook,
eSummaries that deliver wisdom. Perfect for PDA users.
5. eBookAd, many indies label are here
6.
Univ. of Virginia
Library, Free ebooks
7. FreeeLiterature dot com,
classics for free
8. Memoware, free documents from
volunteers.
9.
ESSPC, great place to
start your collection (Free)
10.The Online Book Page,
from U.Penn. new
5
Recommended eBooks from my ebook shelf
(April 04)
(email me for 10%
off coupon)
1.
Don't Know Much About History
2.
Dirty Little Secrets
3.
Killing The Buddha
4.
The Get With the Program! Guide to Fast Food and Family Restaurants
5.
Flirt Coach
Pocket
PC eBooks
Bestseller List
(Jan-Mar 04)
1.
Star Trek Series
2.
Angels and Demons
3.
Holly Bible NIV ed.
4.
The
Da Vinci Code
5.
Deception Points
6.
Letters to Penthouse XIX
7.
Letters to Penthouse XVIII
8.
Resolutions
9.
7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom
10.
Against All Enemies
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Blackmask Rising
Blackmask getting sued by CondeNast: Doc Savage and Shadow holdout
...Whatever, in CN's defense, they've got a new law firm, and their attorney was mostly professional--apart from his choice of Christmas Eve as an appropriate night to drop bombs, of course. They even sent me rewewal notices on all 506 Doc and Shadow titles.
The deal offered was, remove the ebooks, stop printing, no harm done. Just walk away. And of course I've got the green books and the pink books and the yellow books, as well as other black books...
Needless to say, I turned them down. Cold. The deadline for settlement was yesterday (April 7), and we did not settle.
Couple reasons for this:
One, the boys' books issue. I mean, come on, 25% of books published to zero in two decade. This is attracting attention finally, but there is no author for young men quite like Dent.
Secondly, though the attorney for Conde Nast did keep stressing "you're running a business! you're running a business! For years!" He didn't answer when I said "of course; in a manner open, notorious, hostile and continuous."
See, there's this common law tradition of Adverse Possession, from the days when peasants would seize a vacant field and hold it, till it, etc., owning the property after some period of time. This principle got touched on during the orphan works comment period, but wasn't part of the orphan works recommendations.
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