Comments on: Piracy Dilemmas Part IV: The Missed Episode

By: Magdalen

Magdalen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:45:49 +0000

Janet — a friend on the inside! Very canny! Well, if you want to check with her if she’s got copies of one or both books in our proposed book swap, go right ahead. Otherwise, I’ll mail AKOH on Saturday, okay?

By: Janet W

Janet W — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:51:59 +0000

I say you fine Magdalen! The only thing I would add, not that I don’t TOTALLY trust Uncle Sam postal service — throw on a bit of insurance so that if either book goes poof, we can get ‘em again!

And sometimes, if one is very lucky, one has a friend with a UBS owner who a) stocks Regencies and b) doesn’t check them against Amazon. Like my pal in Texas. She only bought The Temporary Wife for me because she knew I live to lend out of print Baloghs (hey, as addictions go, it’s a pretty safe one

By: Magdalen

Magdalen — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:16:43 +0000

Okay, to answer some questions:
1) Nope, I don’t own it and have never read it (although the plot sounds wildly familiar, but then it’s an oldie but goodie: innocent girl on pirate ship);
2) The paperback edition is 500 pages; the large print edition is 453 pages (this makes no mathematical sense to me, but clearly publishers live in an alternate universe where math works differently — see their claims of lost sales from sharing);
3) It’s selling for $20-30 on Amazon, so the odds of finding a copy in a UBS is slim.

So, Janet — how about I mail you A Kind of Honor and you mail me Windflower? We each read & mail back. Postage to be paid by the shipper. What say you?

By: heidenkind

heidenkind — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:26:22 +0000

@Janet W I always imagined it was pretty short for some reason. I've heard about people trying to get it re-released, but that's about it.

By: Janet W

Janet W — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:53:04 +0000

Gee, I haven’t counted pages — it’s just a regular Old Skool Historical with lots of pages, tiny print — unlike Gentle Conquest which was a typical Signet Regency.

I don’t know a lot about ebooks but I know a lot of older titles … like the Joan Wolf line — are being re-released digitally. Have you heard anything similar about The Windflower? I’d be happy to pick up an extra copy for you if I ever spot one. One never knows what one might find in a dusty UBS.

By: heidenkind

heidenkind — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:38:01 +0000

@Janet W How long is it?

By: Janet W

Janet W — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:10:10 +0000

@heidenkind — I do. It’s on my keeper shelf altho I haven’t read it. Why? It’s a LOT bigger than a Balogh Regency

By: heidenkind

heidenkind — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:48:50 +0000

Magdalen & Janet W.~Do either of you own copies of The Windflower?

By: Magdalen

Magdalen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:48:24 +0000

The instructions for the hat (and only the hat) are probably covered by the “fair use” doctrine, which permits copying of a small portion of the entire printed work, provided that the small portion isn’t the nub & heart of the matter. (I used to know the case that led to the exception, but I’m old and decrepit and just don’t remember this stuff anymore.)

Hey, you’re not alone. I just copied a book on CD before returning it to the library. I rather assume this is okay — it’s the equivalent of using a DVR to time-shift watching a TV program. (Oh, and as it happened, back in the day there was a lot — a whole LOT — of hew & cry about VCRs and time-shifting, which Hollywood was convinced was going to destroy the movie-making industry. Further evidence that we’ve been around this block more than once, people. And yet the sky is still up there; go figure.) I’m sure I am expected to delete the book after I listen to it the one time anticipated by having borrowed it in the first place. But it’s on my iPod, and I don’t think I know how to copy it off my iPod.

(I’d make a crappy pirate.)

(Hell, I’m not even sure where my iPod is — I had it for walking the dog the other day, and now… I really am getting decrepit.)

By: Renay

Renay — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:32:43 +0000

I am totally shameless, I did this when Merlin was airing on the BBC but I have no access to that channel and I wanted it RIGHT NOW, and didn’t want to wait for NBC to start airing it….IN SIX MONTHS. I have no shame over this, considering that I have Amazon set to alert me when I can buy the shiny, shiny DVDs of the first season and then write Merlin/Arthur fanfic to my heart’s content!

Although I wished they released DVDs faster. I am dying to give SOMEONE my money for the shinies, what is taking so long!