![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Random Yay
Nov. 10th, 2005 05:05 amMmkay, so I was reading a bunch of actual essays and news articles and stuff today, as opposed to just the usual fanfiction. A lot of them had to do with copyright law and fair use and intellectual property rights.
I'll be the first to admit that as soon as someone tries to tell me what to do with things I've paid for, I want to do whatever they don't want me to do (like letting Dena burn copies of all my CDs). 'm contrary like that.
I do, however, choose to pay for things. I've never yet downloaded any television episode or movie that wasn't being offered by the rights holder. Which is one of the reasons I own more box sets than I do movies (really, it's like 5 movies and 15 box sets, possibly more. I have no willpower).
But I happen to love like pie anyone who chooses to offer their products for free. It's actually the reason that I will always choose to buy Baen over any other publisher (if, you know, I'm choosing between two books that I want equally, otherwise, I'll probably get them both. I say again, no willpower).
Anyway, the actual point of this post is to share some links. Okay, really, two links.
Kelley Armstrong writes pretty good fantasy novels. She writes the Otherworld novels, to be specific, which encompass two connected series. One set of novels is about Elena, the world's only female werewolf and her struggle to accept her supernatural identity (and deal with her lover Clay, who's more wolf than man emotionally). The other set focuses mostly on Paige (though the last novel is about Eve, a dead witch), who's a twenty-something witch with a foster daughter, a sorcerer boyfriend (whose father heads a the supernatural equivalent of a mob family), and knowledge that can change the lives of witches of everywhere...if they'd just listen. Armstrong also offers three novellas and a selection of short stories for free online, the subjects of which have been decided through reader polls, but they all tie in with the series. You can read them online or download, whatever floats your boat.
http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/aNovellas.htm
Jim Baen is my *favorite*. He's a publisher, not an author, but I don't care; I love him. I love him like woah. Because he and Eric Flint talked about it, and then they got in touch with some of Baen's authors, and then they did it. They put together a free, online library of complete, published novels. They do limit the number of books an author can have up, but that's it.
The Baen Free Library is here: http://www.baen.com/library/
And you can find samples (not dinky little first chapter snippets, either; some books have up to 15 chapters on offer) of other Baen books at the main site, here: http://www.baen.com/
I'll be the first to admit that as soon as someone tries to tell me what to do with things I've paid for, I want to do whatever they don't want me to do (like letting Dena burn copies of all my CDs). 'm contrary like that.
I do, however, choose to pay for things. I've never yet downloaded any television episode or movie that wasn't being offered by the rights holder. Which is one of the reasons I own more box sets than I do movies (really, it's like 5 movies and 15 box sets, possibly more. I have no willpower).
But I happen to love like pie anyone who chooses to offer their products for free. It's actually the reason that I will always choose to buy Baen over any other publisher (if, you know, I'm choosing between two books that I want equally, otherwise, I'll probably get them both. I say again, no willpower).
Anyway, the actual point of this post is to share some links. Okay, really, two links.
Kelley Armstrong writes pretty good fantasy novels. She writes the Otherworld novels, to be specific, which encompass two connected series. One set of novels is about Elena, the world's only female werewolf and her struggle to accept her supernatural identity (and deal with her lover Clay, who's more wolf than man emotionally). The other set focuses mostly on Paige (though the last novel is about Eve, a dead witch), who's a twenty-something witch with a foster daughter, a sorcerer boyfriend (whose father heads a the supernatural equivalent of a mob family), and knowledge that can change the lives of witches of everywhere...if they'd just listen. Armstrong also offers three novellas and a selection of short stories for free online, the subjects of which have been decided through reader polls, but they all tie in with the series. You can read them online or download, whatever floats your boat.
http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/aNovellas.htm
Jim Baen is my *favorite*. He's a publisher, not an author, but I don't care; I love him. I love him like woah. Because he and Eric Flint talked about it, and then they got in touch with some of Baen's authors, and then they did it. They put together a free, online library of complete, published novels. They do limit the number of books an author can have up, but that's it.
The Baen Free Library is here: http://www.baen.com/library/
And you can find samples (not dinky little first chapter snippets, either; some books have up to 15 chapters on offer) of other Baen books at the main site, here: http://www.baen.com/
