POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.documentation.books : where to find ebooks : Re: where to find ebooks Server Time
8 May 2024 22:00:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: where to find ebooks  
From: Bill DeWitt
Date: 6 Feb 2002 08:37:52
Message: <3c6131b0@news.povray.org>
"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:52:17 -0800, Mitchell Waite wrote::
>
> > Note that these are not all legal ebooks, many have been scanned from
the
> > publishers pages. There are debates going on that conclude that using
ebooks
> > is like using royalty free MP3s, the person who wrote the book is not
> > rewarded for there efforts.
>
> If they're going on, they can't very well have concluded anything, can
they? :)

    I think it can be safely concluded that an author is not
being -directly- rewarded for his efforts.

> Another place to find free e-books in many formats is
> http://www.baen.com/library/ .

    Evolution in action (IMO). Baen leads where only the strong and flexible
may follow. Soon the rest will either follow out of desperation or die.


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