Comments on: the new sign is really working

By: j.scott barnard

j.scott barnard — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:23:22 +0000

On demand is the future. I imagine there will be electronic displays of the works on hand, printers & receptacles for recycling returned printouts. Disposable books, baby! Expect electronic book reading devices to be lent out as well.

By: katy

katy — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:41:24 +0000

cornell has a good guide to copyright terms and extensions. between 1923 and 1978 it depended on registration and renewal. http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

By: The Goo

The Goo — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:46:32 +0000

Have you seen Project Gutenberg? No Faulkner yet, but this seems to be the basic idea you're going for. As for The Sound and the Fury, works published between 1923 aqnd 1978 have a set of crazy laws that you need a cadre of lawyers to interpret.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:15:27 +0000

I certainly agree with you about the difficulty of reading books on LCD displays. But there are commercial electronic paper readers, and I expect we'll soon see many more.

By: Carey

Carey — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:11:12 +0000

It’s funny, on my way home from the bookstore about a half hour ago I was thinking about how books were probably the only media I’d never fully switch over to the internet for. Leaving aside how books smell, I just need to stop reading on a lighted screen sometimes, or have an even more portable format. Paperback are small and light and I like the experience of books. I think on-demand printing should definitely be employed though, especially if we could get to a standard format smaller than 8.5 x 11.