http://www.closed-circle.net/WhereItsAt/?page_id=721
Plus it’s got the first section of the book as a free download for any who’d like to have a look at it.
Jane just got the book up right before we left for the rink, and I hastily tried to put up the announcment, but didn’t do it right. So here’s hoping this link takes you to the right spot. If all else fails, look for Ring of Lightning.
And if you see a book underlined in our catalog from now on, you can click on that underlined name and get a special page for that book.
And the link still isn’t going live. Just go to http://www.closed-circle.net and get to the Store, then look for Ring of Lightning! OR …cut and paste the link above into the browser nav blank and it will work!
Excuse me, “dimwitted”? Given all of the stuff you have been doing lately, not just working on books, but other things, it’s understandable you could make that small error. You’ve got to be tired and all of the stuff you’re trying to get done is probably wearing you out.
Echo the above…..go skate…enjoy! Think I’ll build a snowman. 😉
Shame,just shameful that you have fallen short of
juggling the 50,000 items on your to do list and
can only handle 49,999! I echo the above and the
other above!! Skate! Rest! We will see you later.
We’re taking that advice! Everybody go buy Jane’s book. 😉 We’re taking a 2 day breather.
Hmmm. Just read this from Google. I like your Closed Circle better, but I don’t know how many authors, or their heirs, would be willing and able to do the work you’ve done. Big maybe – I guess we’ll see how well it works.
Grrr. Second try – http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/05/google-bringing-books-back-life
Ah, Suzi, I love the picture of your Silky. Male or female? How old is your Silky?
I guess she’s taking our advice, since she hasn’t posted for a couple of days. Good, she needs the rest.
I am interested to know what the CC authors think about the google project. It sounds good but one is skeptical.(One would not forego CC for this, of course).
The Google project, if it’s the one I know, is being fought in court, by writers, because they aren’t paying and didn’t bother to check copyright. They originally wanted to put EVERYBODY’s books online without paying, then moderated that plan, but want to make the writers tell them which are copyrighted and not—since copyright extends fifty years beyond the life of the author, that makes response a little iffy.
That’s not an article, that’s a bare-faced ad and should be labeled as such. They will start and others will follow? As I understand it, if the Amended Settlement goes through, Google will have all the rights. And sure, authors can (LABORIOUSLY) opt out, but they just have to trust Google not to use all their works that Google already (illegally) scanned without asking permission.
I have quit using Google. There are other search engines out there. I use GoodSearch, which apparently gives a bit to my designated non-profit whenever I use it. http://www.goodsearch.com/
Me again.
Google seems to have an EXTREMELY atrophied sense of other people’s rights — rights to do what they like with their own books, or rights to keep their e-mail contacts private. If you have gmail, and don’t want to Buzz, here’s what you have to do to turn it off.
Hint — it’s not just a matter of clicking the “turn off Buzz” button. http://www.scotxblog.com/legal-tech/gmails-turn-off-buzz-still-does-not-turn-off-buzz-heres-how-to-really-do-it/
The New York Times has had a series of articles over the Google Debacle that make reasonable sense of everything. Google seems to think that if a copyright lapses the author is dead. I haven’t seen anything which makes me think that they care about paying authors who aren’t well known and selling a zillion copies.
On a more cheerful note ( happy bird chirping here)…..Happy Valentine’s Day………CJ, Jane and all who are part of their “family”
🙂 😀 😆
Happy Valentine’s Day to all! Today was the first lawnmowing of spring, and my feeders are full of goldfinches, redwinged blackbirds, blue jays, and various sparrows, and I saw my first mockingbirds yesterday. The trees are budding out, the spring bulbs are up, and I just heard an ice cream truck! Spring is definitely arriving! I’ve got soem wren houses and a woodpecker house up… crossing my fingers and hoping someone moves into them.
Life is good today!
Hi Joe, Komet is 6 now; he was 1 in the picture. He’s a great little guy – but don’t tell him he’s little! Actually, he’s large for a Silky, and perfect for me. My cat isn’t so sure, but they’ve made peace with each other.
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
Suzi, I miss my little guy. He was 4 months shy of 17 when we put him to sleep. He was blind, his hips were gone, he had no idea where he was, and he had just lost all control of various body parts. The vet told us that we had not waited too long, nor did we jump the gun too soon. It was his time, and I have to say I have no idea how long we were in that room afterward. I just remember I was devastated that he was gone. I still have pictures of him as a puppy, he was always in front of the camera if we tried to take a picture. Komet looks so much like Duke, I’d almost think they were from the same bloodline, but we bought Duke on Guam in 1985 from the breeder, who happened to be our boss’s wife.
oh, dear… that did not work, lol!
http://uoregon.edu/~elacynic/Thesis/valentine.swf
Happy St. Valentine’s day to you, too!
I wanted a cattle dog and a rancher friend’s Aussie had a litter. I picked a pretty little female who looked like her Border Collie dad. A
cute,mostly white pup climbed into my lap and my
friend said that he was blind and the vet said to put him down. I took him(and his sister), I named him Keller(after Helen Keller). He grew to be the happiest and bravest dog that I ever saw. As long as nothing was moved he knew where to avoid and I played his seeing eye person,a “look out Keller” had him advancing cautiously and after one contact he remembered. He lived to
be 11yrs. He astonished everyone who met him. A
very good memory for me,thanks for the dog stories! Happy St. Valentine’s day to all!!
@philospher77……….I envy you…llife is cold here with more snow expected tonight………however, the sun is out and the birds are at he feeder………and I have RETIRED from my day job….so life is good! 😆 😆 😆
Thanks for the valentine emilyrin…..it’s a goody! 😉
Wow…that’s the first I’ve heard about authors getting paid anything! I’d say this article is less an ad than a serious attempt at CYA spin doctoring. That having been said, I hope this mess doesn’t stop various attempts, like project G to make those books which are no longer copyright protected available.
I’ve found various books on the Project Gutenberg site, and if I’m not mistaken, they are not selling books that are copyrighted. I did see Robert’s Rules of Order, Fourteenth Edition on that site, and that’s new, but I am going to be very careful about which books I get electronically. So far, I’ve gotten none, because this is the time of the year when I am catching up on memberships, etc., and don’t have a lot of time, and the other reason is that if I’m using the computer to read, then I have two furry princesses demanding my time and energy away from the computer. If I have a book in my hands, they don’t bother me. Funny how they can tell the difference.
Any of CJ’s or Jane’s books that I decide to buy online will be done through CC, and not a third party. I’d rather deal directly with the author than have to go through some third party who’s getting a cut through some shady dealing.
Is there a Writer’s Guild that can unite all of you to fight against Google, and other copyright pirates? I know a lot of the time, it’s the publishing houses that prosecute violation,s but in this case, one has to consider that as CJ has stated, it’s not always clear who holds the copyright. Since CJ has been responding to us here, and I’m going out on a limb and PRESUME that it’s truly she posting here, it’s obvious that she’s not dead, and besides, 50 years haven’t passed since her “alleged” death. Let’s hope that that day never comes.
I can assure you Google’s best efforts to convince me I’m dead are a dismal failure, and if they put my stuff online I will call them pirates and urge everyone of good conscience to campaign for any other search engine. La!
Unfortunately the writers’ organizations have been very iffy about getting their act together—for an odd reason. SOme years ago they admitted PUBLISHERS as well as writers to their membership, and those guys swing a big axe, especially intimidating to writers who depend on them. SO you will see no few writers’ organizations paralyzed by the unwillingness of writers afraid to disagree with their publishers, who are of course have THEIR position in the organization, and no small voice.
To clarify, Project Gutenberg isn’t selling anything – they offer free downloads of works that aren’t in copyright, either because the author has put them into the public domain or because the copyright term has expired in the country where the server is located. That last bit is important, since different countries have different copyright lengths, and explains why you can quite legitimately find stuff on Gutenberg-Australia and Gutenberg-Canada that’s still in copyright in the US – Gone With The Wind is probably the most famous example. (This is also the root cause of the Great Amazon 1984 Fiasco).
Maybe it is time to form an exclusive guild for writers only, given the conflicts of interest present in the existing organizations.
If the writer’s organizations that exist had had 20/20 foresight, they’d have never allowed anybody BUT writers who make a living from their writing into the core or decision-making segment of the organization, and kept their core-level publications restricted. SWFA went through a crisis where, in a burst of altrustic ‘let’s not be snobs’, and ‘let’s help the newbies’ [and: we need more dues] they opened the doors wide to almost anybody with an interest of some kind in the writing of sf and fantasy. This diluted the voting base to a paralytic extent. If we were what we had been, we’d raise cain; but right now, it’s only one segment of the writing profession.
Getting a large organization organized in time to do anything is mind-numbingly challenging. RIght now the Writers’ Guild itself is going against Amazon and siding with publishers as best I can figure…when Amazon is starting to talk about raising writer pay and publishers are still trying to pay writers 8% max on an e-book sale.