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A computer the size of a notebook. It is usually smaller and lighter than a laptop.
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Notebook computer - polite_james@hotmail.com (James) wrote in message news:<48e9be89.0306291928.352a9fe3@posting.google.com>... Just so we're clear this will be the last post I make here as the conversation is about to become circular.Hi there, James.You came back to make one more post here, because last night I said onthe Mindsight Forum that you had bailed out on this conversation. Thematter of published authors posting entire books to the web is onlyone of the issues that was being discussed here. You abandoned therest in mid-air. But since anyone who can read this message can seethe other messages in this short but pithy thread, I'll leave thereaders to draw their own conclusions.As to the matter of published authors posting their books on the web:You initially tried to discredit Fred Dungan by quoting a remark ofhis in another thread, where he said, in re PublishAmerica:FRED: "Then, ever so gradually, they take control of yourlife. In my case, they decided they didn't like myhomepage on the internet and ordered me to change it."Anent which, you said:JAMES: Are you saying that conventionally published authors,with the blessing of their publisher, have publishedtheir entire manuscript on the Internet for free? Nameme ONE (and I want the website).And then I said:TNH: ...ou are misinformed. It has been done, by conven-tionally published authors, with the blessing of theirpublishers.Berry Kercheval replied that, nonfiction aside, there's CoryDoctorow's DOWN AND OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM,http://www.craphound.com/down/download.php. There's also the Baen FreeLibrary at http://www.baen.com/library/, which has the complete textsof more than 50 books by Aaron Allston, Christopher Anvil, LoisBujold, Paul Chafe, Rick Cook, John Dalmas, David Drake, Linda Evans,Eric Flint, Michael Flynn, Dave Freer, Mark Garland, Ellen Guon, KarenKoehler, Mercedes Lackey, Keith Laumer, Holly Lisle, Duncan Long,Charles McGraw, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, John Ringo, James H.Schmitz, D.W. St. John, David Weber, and K.D. Wentworth.BERRY: Will that do?I regret to say that at this point you started fibbing. Here's thefirst half of what you said:JAMES: No. The first one I couldn't even figure out who thepublisher was (his distribution was sketchy, too)...BERRY: That's pathetically easy. It's a Tor trade paperback,as it happens.You didn't respond to Berry. And you know, James, given your fondnessfor "correcting" people, I have to think that if you'd looked at thebook on Amazon (where it is in fact pathetically easy to find), you'dhave mentioned that Berry's mistaken, and that it's a Tor hardcover.You didn't respond to me, either, when I pointed out in message that Cory Doctorowisn't just well-documented in the online universe, but is quitepossibly the most web-present individual on this planet. For instance,Cory's the leading light of BoingBoing, a wildly popular weblog (seeTechnorati for the numbers), where he has frequently mentioned hisnovels.TNH: If you just type his name into Google, you get circa30,600 hits. The first two hits are BoingBoing. Thethird website Google lists is "The Literary Works ofCory Doctorow":http://www.craphound.com/The fourth is =Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom=:http://www.craphound.com/down/Cory's been the subject of numerous interviews and articles, in majorvenues, about him, his ideas, his book, and his free distribution ofhis book as e-text concurrent with its hardcover publication. He'sbeen plugged by Jeff Bezos, featured on the O'Reilly Network, andreviewed by all the genre reviewers plus the =New York Times=, the=Times= of London, NASA's astrobiology magazine, and lord knows whoelse. There's even a DOWN AND OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM webring. Andthroughout all that, Cory's been very good about mentioning hispublisher.As for his book's supposedly "sketchy distribution", the hardcover waswidely distributed by Tor and is doing very well. On top of that, over75,000 copies of the electronic version were downloaded from Cory'ssite in the fir
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