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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)

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Re: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)

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Post by robin_reala »

Ah, a rare appearance of the copyrighted Project Gutenberg book. See also their translation of Kafka’s Metamorphosis[1] and the not-awful edition of Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.[2]

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5200

[2] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2488

Re: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)

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Post by mkl »

lproven wrote: post #3

As far as I know, all of Doctorow's books are on his website for free download anyway. E.g. here is Content ... https://craphound.com/content/download/ DAOITMK is here: https://craphound.com/category/down/

I think I remember reading a blog post explaining why one was not free, but I can't find it now. There's a reference to it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/rub7ff/is_corey_do...

Re: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

lproven wrote: post #3

As far as I know, all of Doctorow's books are on his website for free download anyway. E.g. here is Content ... https://craphound.com/content/download/ DAOITMK is here: https://craphound.com/category/down/

I don't think they're all there, e.g.

https://craphound.com/category/redteamblues/

Re: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)

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Post by ghaff »

mkl wrote: post #5
lproven wrote: post #3

As far as I know, all of Doctorow's books are on his website for free download anyway. E.g. here is Content ... https://craphound.com/content/download/ DAOITMK is here: https://craphound.com/category/down/

I think I remember reading a blog post explaining why one was not free, but I can't find it now. There's a reference to it here: https://old.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/rub7ff/is_corey_do...

Typical commercial publishing contracts, you can't just stick the book up online for free.

Re: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)

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Post by keepamovin »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #7

The more usual link for Gutenberg is: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8086 Which gives you different formats, and links to the author's other works.

I prefer this 'HTML (as submitted)' version. Kind of the canonical "first edition" seems ~~ guess it's how Doctorow sent it to the big G himself? Plus it has the cute little lime green frontispiece, and I love that.

That's why I posted this link not another one.

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