On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:56:26 -0600, Jeff Vorzimmer
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jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.
My goodness, this is now well-past libel. Below the radar? My
ebook newsletter, whenever I trouble with it, is read by
folks at RandomHouse, HarperCollins, S&S and Penguin.
I've been in contact with the good people at Conde Nast (and
you note I still give away the complete Docs and Shadows,
after all the C&Ds went out), Grove-Atlantic, estate of
Dash Hammett, AMS (parent of Blue Moon/Carroll &
Graf).
As far as not paying royalties? Obviously? Have to go rescind
a year or two's worth of payments to the Rice folks, Roger
Simon (who, by the way, is alive and posting at
Rogerlsimon.com) and others. Negotiations for Fred Brown are
ongoing, but that's a unique situation
(and, truth be told, I may have been paying the wrong person
for Der Golem, but I'm now tracking down the
translator).
>
> 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.
>
I'd very much appreciate it if you'd post all four documents.
But that doesn't seem quite helpful enough, as of course you
could have just re-edited the HTML "backup" version slightly
and made your own PDFs. So I'd like you to add the images
you've scanned the books from, in a zip archive, so people
can tell the actual date of the files so rendered (which
would of course have to be prior to May, 2004, when your own,
"unique" version was created.)
I'll host said images myself, if need be.
> 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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