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George Dasher wrote:Isn't Lonely Planet abusing the copyright by doing that?
GroundquestMSA wrote:George, would it be possible for you to mention a few of the new features of the new edition? Or tell me where to read about it?
wyandottecaver wrote:Teresa,
I understand your position. However, consider google and wikipedia. Like it or not they ARE the reference sources now. Good, bad, and ugly. Information that does not go digital will simply not exist in a practical sense in a decade or so. There is a tremendous amount of amazing information....in latin. Guess how practical that information is today if it hasn't been translated?
There are certainly challenges to creating a working business model for e-pubs....but they do exist.
Cheryl Jones wrote:E-pubs are in the works! The next big step is to upgrade our bookstore and associated software so we can deliver them, among other improvements an upgrade will provide.
Patience grasshoppers.
Cheryl
Dave Luckins wrote:Yep, patience...please. I'm flogging the volunteers as hard as I can (but, as you know, that doesn't work too well), some things take time and testing before they're launched. A new bookstore web site with errors will be worse than I'd like to think about. The new site WILL have eBooks, and yes, they are ready to go...
Dave Luckins, OVP
Teresa wrote:I'm not a fan of books on pdf. Reason? Something like On Station took a long time and hard work to put together. The author and/or his designee should be able to profit from the work. Pdfs make books way too easy to rip off. It may be a thrill to get all that info for free, but it is a great discouragement to an author to spend hours, days and sometimes years putting together some work, and then some joyboy or girl comes along and steals it. Yep. Steals it. If an author doesn't want/need the money, that's one thing, but I've yet to see any author so well off that a few bucks aren't helpful.
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