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 Message 70 
 BOB KLAHN to ED HULETT 
 Good year 
 03 Jan 11 05:48:14 
 
 RS>>>>> NewsMax is notorious for buying up Ann Coulter's books, and
 BK>>> giving them RS>> away or at a very low price to those who buy thier
 BK>>> "premium service."

 EH>>>> That's a lie.

 BK>>> Is it? Newsmax is giving the book away as a premium.

 RS>> There's nothing wrong, per se, with these gieaways.

 EH> If it's a give away, the book has been paid for.

 That's what he said.

 ...

 RS>>>>> Besides hard-cover and paperback nowadays, e-book sales are a
 BK>>> growing RS>> market.

 EH>>>> Tell me about it, I have over 100 books now on my Kindle.

 BK>>> I have over 11,000 on a DVD, readable on pretty much any
 BK>>> computer made. It's called ASCII text.

 RS>> Some ebook readers can use ASCII, mine can read Adobe format text.
 RS>> (Reading "War Of The Worlds" on it now.)

 ...

 EH> The idiot Klahn, seems to think his 11,000 ASCII ebooks on
 EH> a DVD is somehow impressive. Anyone with a computer and
 EH> internet access has access to several hundred thousand
 EH> ebooks. Copying several to a DVD doesn't impress me one bit.

 It's called project Gutenberg, and they were doing this long
 before Amazon or any of the others had heard of e-books.

 And EH seems to think a hundred books on his reader is impressive.

 Oh, the that 11,000 books were free. That's what Project
 Gutenberg is all about.





BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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