It sucked I had to resort to that and it made me mad that I had to go to those extremes. But that is the fact of life for books going out of print.
That is what fascinates me, as a long time scrounger in second-hand bookstores, about internet-based readers. When has it come about that the possibility of something lasting forever on the internet necessitates that it must be available forever. Technology exists that allows folk (not only writers) to remove their content from search engines and archives. Where, in the fine print, does it say that a reader's right to access that material over-rides a writer's ability to remove that same material?
And isn't it the way that SF/fantasy always drives us into the boxes in bookstores? *g* It took me years to find another copy of Tanith Lee's To Kill The Dead after my copy went mysteriously walkabout... probably something to do with it being a very thinly disguised Blake's 7 AU fan novel... *g*
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Date: 2006-10-28 06:19 am (UTC)That is what fascinates me, as a long time scrounger in second-hand bookstores, about internet-based readers. When has it come about that the possibility of something lasting forever on the internet necessitates that it must be available forever. Technology exists that allows folk (not only writers) to remove their content from search engines and archives. Where, in the fine print, does it say that a reader's right to access that material over-rides a writer's ability to remove that same material?
And isn't it the way that SF/fantasy always drives us into the boxes in bookstores? *g* It took me years to find another copy of Tanith Lee's To Kill The Dead after my copy went mysteriously walkabout... probably something to do with it being a very thinly disguised Blake's 7 AU fan novel... *g*