Bargain Books February 2009

[Lisanr]

I'm always happy to see you, Gertie. 

You're right about the copyright laws being confusing, but if I had to take a wild guess it would be that the book isn't legitimately in the public domain.

Well it is a little more involved than simply 70 plus yrs. Agatha Christie died in the 70's and 2 of her books are in the public domain. Heyer's black moth was published in 1921 btw. And I seriously doubt manybooks.net ever violated copyright laws. They come straight from project gutenberg and he offers them in various formats.

[Ann in Arlington]

I said I know nothing...

You know a lot Vamp. . . . . .I hope you didn't think I was being mean at all. . . . .just conversing. . . .I don't really know either!

Ann

[Jeff]

Well it is a little more involved than simply 70 plus yrs. Agatha Christie died in the 70's and 2 of her books are in the public domain. Heyer's black moth was published in 1921 btw. And I seriously doubt manybooks.net ever violated copyright laws. They come straight from project gutenberg and he offers them in various formats.

I'm sure you must be right but I can't fit it into any of the legal explanations of the copyright laws. I yield the thread to Vampy who had the right idea in the first place.

[Arkhan]

Hey Kevin,

I really like that we have authors coming to the board. Without all this participation I would never have picked up these books because I probably would have never found them. At the same time, darn you authors and cheap Kindle books!!! It seems impossible to go more than a day or two without buying Kindle books.

Seriously though, it sounds like an interesting story. Unfortunately, you need to get on Amazon to put a description on the Kindle product page. It may be kind of hard to sell a book without an overview. I did some searching though to get more information and not only did I find it, I found there is not a single review out there that is not good. I really hope we continue to attract this talent here to KB because it is really a treat to have authors handing us their work, and at great deals too. On a side note, I like that there is a pronunciation guide to help with names. I know it may be targeting younger readers but it is distracting for me to run across names in a story that I am not sure I have right.

[David J. Guyton]

Arkhan,
The Kindle pages are very slow to be updated. I am almost positive it's not Kevis' fault. He only just put it up a day or two ago, and it takes amazon quite a while to streamline everything. It actually took 2 months for my paperback and Kindle pages to recognize each other.

I'm sure more product info is in the system and will be on his page shortly.

[Betsy the Quilter]

For the latest Bargain Books, see the March 2009 thread:

Bargain Books March 2009

Betsy