I'm sorry if I offended you with the information which I posted.  It is a fact 
that many of the things posted on the Archives were downloaded and then sold 
for profit.  I stated clearly that I did not know which book you were referring 
to, but that many e-books related to lace which are offered could have been 
downloaded from the website.

But as a point of information, I went to the particular book you were referring 
to.  The pictures are too small to read, but the style of the book and the 
pictures are clearly not 21st century.  In addition, the seller urges us to 
look at "our" other books, and among them is Charlotte Kellogg's "Bobbins of 
Belgium", which is certainly one of the books on the website, and the author is 
not the same as the book you have brought to our attention.  So your suggestion 
that the seller wrote the books him/herself is just not possible.

I stand by my caution:  if you see a book listed on eBay on disk, or as a 
download, you can save yourself money by going to the website and downloading 
it from the source!  If you want it on disk, you will get many, many more books 
as well on the disk which contains the information you're interested in.

Clay

--
Clay Blackwell 
Lynchburg, VA USA 


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From: Shere'e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

> On 10/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
> > I don't know which eBay offering you're referring to, but I would really 
> > like 
> to take this opportunity to advise all Arachnids that in the not-too-distant 
> past, the Professor's website at the University of Arizona was easily 
> accessible 
> to all. No one ever imagined that people interested in weaving and lacemaking 
> would steal the work of others and sell it to others. 
> > 
> 
> This is the item number 260174595731 . 
> 
> I must admit that I do take a bit of offense at the automatic 
> assumption that the person selling the book has stolen it and that it 
> is an illegal copy. Yes, it may be, however it may NOT be as well. It 
> may be someone who wrote the book on their own and is selling it this 
> way instead of through a publishing house that keeps the bulk of the 
> money that the book is sold for. Unless a book sells HUGE numbers an 
> author really gets a tiny amount of money for all the work. 
> 
> If this IS an illegal copy and is in fact the work of the Professor 
> would you please let me know. There are a bunch of screen shots of 
> the pages so it should be pretty obvious to those who have seen the 
> Professor's work. If not, would you please post that as well so that 
> people know that this is not an illegal copy and that the assumption 
> you just gave was incorrect. 
> 
> 
> Shere'e 
> Seattle, WA USA 
> -- 
> www.webeweddings.com 
> Unique Weddings for Unique Couples 

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