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Star Wars Books Released As Ebooks
An anonymous reader writes "Tomorrow all of the Star Wars books that have not previously been released as ebooks are being released. This includes the Zahn books that started the Star Wars book explosion, as well as older books such as Alan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's Eye, which was written prior to certain revelations in The Empire Strikes Back."
You are allowed to format-shift content you own. You simply can't distribute the copy.
...and you must transfer or destroy all copies if you transfer the original.
The presentation of the work is copyrighted, so you cannot legally download the eBook version of a book you own, but you CAN scan it in. It seems like downloading a copy of the edition you own (or possibly a later edition if it can be shown that there were no edits) is a legal gray area but not being a lawyer, let alone in IP law, I don't know if there is any applicable case law.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It doesn't fit with the movies mainly because it was written before most of them. It was intended to be the sequel to Star Wars in the event that the original movie didn't do well enough to warrant a film sequel. Thus, there are some plot points that seem hilarious to us now, mainly that Luke and Leia have quite a few romantic thoughts about each other. The fact that Lucas allowed this should be pretty good proof that Luke and Leia were not siblings from the beginning.
Yeah!
Glad to see someone else likes (tolerates?) this book. I remember reading it a looong time ago (~1980) and although it introduces a lot of stuff that wasn't present in the original movies, it seemed to hang together pretty well.
I'm sure some kind of "leap of faith" is required for any of these books.
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Thus, there are some plot points that seem hilarious to us now, mainly that Luke and Leia have quite a few romantic thoughts about each other. The fact that Lucas allowed this should be pretty good proof that Luke and Leia were not siblings from the beginning.
Well, Tatooine did kind of look like the desert outside Vegas, and what happens in Tatooine stays in Tatooine...
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
It makes perfect sense when you realize that Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru were also brother and sister, and that Tatooine is a VERY lonely place.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
they have been out on torrent sites for years. There is a ton of stuff out there that has already been scanned in. There is a 24 GB torrent of just e-books.
had copyright been kept at 20 yrs, they would've all been in public domain by now.
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
This seems perfectly reasonable to me. I'm currently getting a novel I wrote ready to go on sale, so I've really given a lot of thought to this from the position of an author (no, I'm not famous, and almost certainly won't get rich from this, but I've thought it through anyway). Personally, what I'd love to do is somehow link the book sale so that if someone purchases a physical copy, they get some kind of coupon or code that entitles them to a free Kindle/Nook/iBook/whatever copy. Right now I have no way to do that, but it strikes me as fair to all parties involved; the author gets his royalty for the book, and the ebook in this case is essentially free since it's already available for purchase anyway (no additional manufacturing/shipping fees involved). Since I have no way to actually do this [yet], I suppose I'd have to take the official stance of "please don't do that" as far as downloading a cracked copy, but personally if you've already bought a physical copy having a "free" ebook version wouldn't bother me in the least.
Some bring out the best in others, some the worst. Some bring out far more.
It's nice to get honest insight from someone with a personal stake in things. I wonder if a book could offer a digital copy in the way that the "Blu-Ray combo packs" have begun to do with films. I hope you at the very least get a sense of personal accomplishment, if not wealth beyond imagining. Congrats on getting published, certainly. Feel free to shamelessly plug your book, by the way! If it sounds like something I'd enjoy, I'll buy a copy.
For conscience is the wound, and there's naught to staunch it