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Most of them science fiction first editions.

Both for his SF and his Byte columns.

My obituary.

Other book scammers offering books tht look like low-cost omnibus editions, but which are actually compilations of Wikipedia articles and other content-scraped public-domain material, are:

• Hephaestus Books, and
• Webster's Digital Services

Let the buyer beware...

Other book scammers offering books tht look like low-cost omnibus editions, but which are actually compilations of Wikipedia articles and other content-scraped public-domain material, are:

• Hephaestus Books, and
• Webster's Digital Services

Let the buyer beware...

Basically, Shout Factory, the people who are doing the DVDs, bought all the shows rights from Jim Mallon/Best Brains, " including all brand assets and global intellectual property."

Someone has actually written a novel called Sharcano .

if it weren't $5,100.

It's an annual thing.

Also hand out candy to kids, accompanied by my friendly hellhound, plus atmospheric music and lights.

Piper Alpha was a cascade of multiple design and procedural failures. However, while it's true the gas feeds from other rigs were not shut off, the lines were so highly pressurized that it would have taken hours for them to bleed off anyway, and the entire disaster unfolded in less than half an hour. So that aspect had very little to do with the final death toll.

Easily one of the Top 10 SF Writers of all time, and a huge stylistic influence on the field.

My own tiny tribute, along with scans of some of his rarer first editions from my library.

That same auction featured a lot of interesting science fiction first editions, including a true first of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone that went for $43,750, and an inscribed first of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds went for $35,000.

Good! Amazon has recently suffered from a severe problem in that companies like Hephaestus Press and Webster’s Digital Services have created "books" out of scraping public domain content like Wikipedia and slapping them between two covers (or digital equivalent thereof) and putting deceptive titles on them. For example, Hephaestus published the book Novels By Jerry Pournelle, including: The Legacy Of Heorot, The Mote In God’s Eye, The Gripping Hand, Footfall, Inferno (novel), Fallen Angels Starswarm, which looks like an omnibus edition, but which is actually scrapped Wikipedia content.

Sounds like they're finally cracking down on this practice, which is a good thing.

Good! Amazon has recently suffered from a severe problem in that companies like Hephaestus Press and Webster’s Digital Services have created "books" out of scraping public domain content like Wikipedia and slapping them between two covers (or digital equivalent thereof) and putting deceptive titles on them. For example, Hephaestus published the book Novels By Jerry Pournelle, including: The Legacy Of Heorot, The Mote In God’s Eye, The Gripping Hand, Footfall, Inferno (novel), Fallen Angels Starswarm, which looks like an omnibus edition, but which is actually scrapped Wikipedia content.

Sounds like they're finally cracking down on this practice, which is a good thing.

1. They're easier on the eyes.
2. They retain their resale value; trying to resell an ebook ranges from hard to impossible.
3. They never crash.
4. They work even when you're out of battery power.
5. If you drop them, the book (and 500 others) doesn't instantly become completely useless.
6. You're not beholden to any particular supplier.
7. Neither Apple nor Amazon can remove the book from your house if they decide that releasing it was a mistake.
8. They look great on shelves.
9. They provide insulation in the winter.
10. You don't have to turn the book off for takeoffs and landings.

Of course, I'm hardly a neutral observer. On the other hand, I do take my own advice.

1. They're easier on the eyes.
2. They retain their resale value; trying to resell an ebook ranges from hard to impossible.
3. They never crash.
4. They work even when you're out of battery power.
5. If you drop them, the book (and 500 others) doesn't instantly become completely useless.
6. You're not beholden to any particular supplier.
7. Neither Apple nor Amazon can remove the book from your house if they decide that releasing it was a mistake.
8. They look great on shelves.
9. They provide insulation in the winter.
10. You don't have to turn the book off for takeoffs and landings.

Of course, I'm hardly a neutral observer. On the other hand, I do take my own advice.

While the MPAA is wrong, this article is a bit of a strawman. The Avengers being a a big-budget, special effects laden film, is the sort of film seen best in a movie theater. And obviously it's all-but-impossible to replicate the 3D experience with a pirate copy (whether you like 3D or not). A smaller, quieter independent film, something that doesn't lose much by being seen on TV, might suffer more from pirating.

FWIW, I liked The Avengers the best of any live-action superhero film I've seen. Granted, the half-naked Scarlett Johansson didn't hurt...

Personally I think that breaking stuff that used to work is destroying Google...

When this video first made the rounds on Fark and elsewhere.

By the way, here's a longer video with more explanation of how it works.

When this video first made the rounds on Fark and elsewhere.

By the way, here's a longer video with more explanation of how it works.

Are you talking about this one? (It's what I'm seeing as the second link in the original post, maybe you're thinking of something else)
http://ereads.com/2010/11/project-gutenberg-improperly-pdd-copyrighted-works-authors-claim.html

I'm looking through that to see where it says "PG has decided to not review their actions to see if they have infringed on other people's works but rather to hope that no one else notices and complains."

I'm not finding it.

Or this one?
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/?p=3025
Where it says "Greg Bear: Project Gutenberg Screwed Up"

The question is: Will the New York Times be here in 50 years?

My guess is no. It may not even last ten.

Lawrence Person
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
http://www.battleswarmblog.com/

Repeatedly.