TedKubaska wrote: > In the same sense my buddy is soliciting comments from friends and family. > Google docs from a technical standpoint is excellent for this. But the EULA > scares him. We've scoured the net and get lots of conflicting info. Now I > personally don't think there's a snowball's chance of some agent taking a > bite on some finished work of his, but he doesn't want to kabosh that > possibility. >
Having friends/associates read your yet-to-be-published work is common in the book world. When you open a book and look at the Acknowledgments section at the front, you are looking at a list of folk who have probably read some or all of the book before it was published. They have provided a critique of the work, and that is a plus to editors and publishers. So, the key concept is the meaning of "published" to the publisher your friend ends up talking to. IANAL either, but I'd expect that if I put something on my web site, linked from somewhere else on my web site, that would make the work publicly available, but if I don't link it, and send the url to a friend, then it isn't publicly available; it's privately available. -- Regards, Dick Steffens www.dicksteffens.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
