I never can go to sleep without having something to read first. You think theyâd have anything?
It sounds great, and if Kickstarter had a paypal option, I might have even contributed (I donât have a credit card)âŚ
But unless Iâm missing something, when I looked closer, it doesnât seem to live up to the hype.
I looked at the site and still canât find the free or low-cost ebooks. Well, arguably, $5.99 (the price for every single book I could see, save one that was $.99 and the title included âpart oneâ) is cheap, but I see plenty of newer ebooks less than that on amazon (and I could likely find them in paperback, or ones of similar quality, at a used bookstore for even less). Or if you go the âsubscriptionâ route and want to drop $25 to get multiple books, you could certainly consider it cheap at that price. Still havenât found one free one (free with a paid subscription is not free).
Iâm going to assume the money they raise from selling the ebooks (that doesnât go back to the authors estates since I presume some of these are just âright to publishâ rather than full on rights), at least goes right back into buying more rights/covering other costs rather than just trying to raise a profit, but even so, it seems less of a noble endeavor than I thought it was.
Iâd love to support a program like this that buys the copyright of classic books outright and then releases them under CC-commons (or outright public domain) for anybody to read, use, build derivative works off of, etc.
I was puzzled to see OâNeillâs âLand Under Englandâ on the list of âlost, brilliant science fiction classicsâ, when the NEL edition from 1978 and the Penguin edition from 1987 are still in circulation.
There seems to be some overlap / competition with the Radium Age series from HiLo books (Odieâs âThe Clockwork Manâ, Jaegerâs âMan with Six Sensesâ).
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