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[kinzel]

Theo is in process. Sorry the chapter is late, was going over important paperwork ... sigh.

Meanwhile, not paperwork, is some commentary about ebooks on the SFnovelists blog ...
http://www.sfnovelists.com/2008/09/28/my-own-epublishing-rant/
which seems of the opinion that ebooks are not where it is. Please feel free to read and comment...

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[jryson.livejournal.com]

In particular I want copies of the books I already have and enjoy re-reading, and around 95% of those aren't even in print let alone available in electronic form, nor are they at all likely to be made available in my lifetime (in fact the probability drops with time, since many of them are obsolete in terms of the science in the "Science Fiction" and they have limited appeal from a literary perspective).

I have some optimism about that. Probably any book printed in the last decade or so exists in machine-readable format in somebody' vault. Then it's a matter of finding it and arranging to pay for intellectual property. Or, you can scan the book yourself. Scanning paper type-to-machine-readable software is cheap and pretty good.