Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:22:19 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: E-Books
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> sgs at aginc.net 04/17/02 11:26PM
>
>Interesting article at http://www.baen.com/library/palaver6.htm on the
>economics of providing *free* e-books.  The author gives some
>interesting numbers, in contrast to the ex cathedra pronouncements that
>we usually see.
>
>FYI, the Baen Free Library has a whole bunch of books for free download
>in a variety of formats.  It's at http://www.baen.com/library/.
>
>Perhaps there should be a pointer to the Free Library on the WSFA
>website?
>

Maybe I'm just a 21st century Luddite . . . but the idea - after spending =
all day with a computer screen - of reading fiction on a screen, well,  =
no, I'd rather not, thank you.

But ebooks for non-fiction, technical material, reference material, sure, =
ok & fine.

And with the Baen ebooks you can read - I gather- the actual words of =
James Schmitz, sans Homer Eon, I mean Eric, Flint.

mjw

>
>--
>Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
>Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
>"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
>