On Aug 30, 10:30 pm, threeneurons <[email protected]> wrote: > Its mostly legal, but clearly these people have no ethical or moral values. > Publishing things from the public domain, and charging a lot of money for > it. I could see it, if they did it as a service, and charged a nominal fee.
This is the reason I stopped posting newly-scanned out-of-copyright technology book scans on my web site (older example at http://www.tmk.com/books/eastriver/index.shtml for reference). Companies were taking these, ignoring my copyright notice on the markup, layout, and presentation, and then selling badly laser-printed copies to unsuspecting buyers. Some of the copies they sold still had my Facsimile Edition copyright notice in there, and some buyers would complain to me and I'd have to explain that I had nothing to do with those cheap editions (my print editions have duplicates of the original covers, including anything like gold leaf). What I found most annoying was that a University Press (to remain nameless) was doing this to some of my work. I actually bought a copy and discovered it didn't have the illiustrations in it (but it did have some "bugs" I put in the PDF's to detect this type of copying). When I called and asked about the missing plates (without identifying myself), they actually had the nerve to tell me I should contact [myself] to get a set of the illustration plates sent out for free. The last time I checked, this sort of scam was all over bookfinder - you'd see listings for "this is a print-on-demand copy of a classic out-of-print article" that they're selling for 3x the price of a genuine original magazine copy. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
