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Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday October 21, 2002 @04:50PM from the publishing-without-paper dept.

bcrowell writes "Remember e-books, anti-books, and print-on-demand books? They didn't pan out. The surprise success story is free books." Of course, this defines "success" as number of readers, not in terms of monetary profits. E-books and their ilk were concentrating on the latter definition, rather than the former. Still, it's good to see free books preferred in some circles based on their merit, and not just the cost.

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business model (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 21, 2002 @04:56PM (#4498954)

1. free books
2. ?
3. PROFIT!!!

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Stephen Hawking (Score:1, Funny)

by D4Vr4nt ( 615027 ) writes: on Monday October 21, 2002 @04:58PM (#4498977) Homepage

A Brief History of Time might have to be revised yet again..

No free books. :P

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Definition of "book" (Score:3, Funny)

by ohboy-sleep ( 601567 ) writes: on Monday October 21, 2002 @05:07PM (#4499062) Homepage

When they say they're free books, do they mean novel-length stories with real plots, or do they mean things like Seven-of-Nine/Highlander crossover fan-fiction?

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Re:In the beginning... (Score:3, Funny)

by SquadBoy ( 167263 ) writes: on Monday October 21, 2002 @05:23PM (#4499222) Homepage Journal

I *really* liked the bit about drills.

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Free as in irony (Score:2, Funny)

by Mr.Coffee ( 168480 ) writes: <rhysfeezled@gm[ ].com ['ail' in gap]> on Monday October 21, 2002 @05:58PM (#4499465) Homepage

did is strike anyone else as ironic that one of the mentioned websites, theassayer.org, which said it had more than 350 free books on it's site, is not accessable by public?

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Flaws of society (Score:2, Funny)

by ViZA ( 619397 ) writes: on Monday October 21, 2002 @06:29PM (#4499714)

It is times like these that I rejoice to the sounds of failure. Corporations and your typical money making "joe" make it hard these days to separate superficial monkey bait from superb works of literary merit. Much like this man. [www.msn.es]

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Re:business model (Score:4, Funny)

by Servants ( 587312 ) writes: on Monday October 21, 2002 @10:38PM (#4501266)

When paperbacks started costing > 9 dollars, I stopped buying them. It hurt to decrease my favorite entertainment, but with my scifi/fantasy appetite of 2-4 paperbacks a weekend, I just couldn't afford it.
Dude... haven't you got a library? The original source of free books...

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