etext

So the etext is worth half – as it would cost a LOT to print at home, or needs to be offset against an expensive reader, or professionally printed at reasonable cost.

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We've got movies, we've got this netflix etc, textbook companies are promising etext options by fall prompting colleges to start orders to hand out ipads to students and so on. now some folks don't like Apple's one stop shopping mandate. but a lot of less tech savvy folks won't care. in fact that will be a point in favor for them

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Free etext of “From the Clay of His Heart” now available

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Free etext of “From the Clay of His Heart” now available

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Free etext of “From the Clay of His Heart” now available

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I bought the complete 6 volume penguin classics proust based on a pirate etext of the first volume, and recently purchased another copy for a friend in the states.

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My analysis is that they'd be unlikely to pay full price for a legal etext, but might pay something if there were a way to do it maybe even as much as $5.

Making Light: Amazon versus Macmillan 2010

Edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, etext format mangling by Kindle Unkiltering.

Making Light: Amazon versus Macmillan 2010

University of Virginia etext repository, LIT and PDB, mostly:

March 9th, 2010 curufea 2010

I may well be more biased too – having read “down and out in the magic kingdom” by Cory Doctrow (which was released free via cc license as an etext), I felt compelled to pay to go see the fellow speak when he was in town.

Do Ebooks, Legal or Not, Make You Buy Real Books? | Lifehacker Australia 2008