David,
I'm really not in the business of selling electronic books.
If I thought your books were too full of errors to read, then
it follows that they wouldn't be good source texts. If you
downloaded the books I posted (there is a sample chapter) you
would see that they bear no resemblance to your books. But
the main reason that I wouldn't use your books is that most
of the hardboiled crime fiction you're selling are still
under copyright and you obviously aren't paying royalties.
You can get away with it, because you're flying under the
radar for the most part. I do however think what you're doing
is a service to those avid readers of hardboiled fiction who
wouldn't otherwise have access to these texts because they
have been, for the most part, neglected. I applaud what your
doing, I just think the books need more editing.
I will gladly email you the PDFs of the books of your you
claim I'm reselling. With your permission I would even post
your PDF of said book and let people compare to mine.
Jeff
> I confess I may have been too cocky in the past, as
folks like
> Wildside Press, and, umm, Jeff Vorzimmer, have been
known to just
> grab texts from me and print/resell them. Some of
the ones I did that
> ended up on Wildside (say, the Dr. Nikola series in
its entirety and
> tons of Walter Scott whose source-texts weren't
Gutenberg compiant)
> are among that firm's bestsellers, so I perhaps
assumed they were in
> better condition. Neither Jeff nor Wildside spent
any additional time
> editing, as far as I can tell, but of course they
also didn't issue a
> thank you.
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