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   Message 70 of 334   
   BOB KLAHN to ED HULETT   
   Good year   
   03 Jan 11 05:48:14   
   
    RS>>>>> NewsMax is notorious for buying up Ann Coulter's books, and   
    BK>>> giving them RS>> away or at a very low price to those who buy thier   
    BK>>> "premium service."   
      
    EH>>>> That's a lie.   
      
    BK>>> Is it? Newsmax is giving the book away as a premium.   
      
    RS>> There's nothing wrong, per se, with these gieaways.   
      
    EH> If it's a give away, the book has been paid for.   
      
    That's what he said.   
      
    ...   
      
    RS>>>>> Besides hard-cover and paperback nowadays, e-book sales are a   
    BK>>> growing RS>> market.   
      
    EH>>>> Tell me about it, I have over 100 books now on my Kindle.   
      
    BK>>> I have over 11,000 on a DVD, readable on pretty much any   
    BK>>> computer made. It's called ASCII text.   
      
    RS>> Some ebook readers can use ASCII, mine can read Adobe format text.   
    RS>> (Reading "War Of The Worlds" on it now.)   
      
    ...   
      
    EH> The idiot Klahn, seems to think his 11,000 ASCII ebooks on   
    EH> a DVD is somehow impressive. Anyone with a computer and   
    EH> internet access has access to several hundred thousand   
    EH> ebooks. Copying several to a DVD doesn't impress me one bit.   
      
    It's called project Gutenberg, and they were doing this long   
    before Amazon or any of the others had heard of e-books.   
      
    And EH seems to think a hundred books on his reader is impressive.   
      
    Oh, the that 11,000 books were free. That's what Project   
    Gutenberg is all about.   
      
      
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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