Please, feel free to contact PeanutPress.com or Netlibrary.com and remind
them about us. They have stated that they won't do a Newton version, but
you never know. If enough people ask they might realize it would be
profitable.
Loren
> From: "Harbottle, Richard P" <r.harbottle@ic.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:54:51 -0000
> To: "'newtontalk@planetnewton.com'" <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
> Subject: RE: NTLK Stephen King's ebook
>
> This is a tricky one.
> I really really wanted to buy this book. $2.50 isn't really that much. You
> can buy it from several e-book vendors for this price in several different
> formats. Sadly as I use macintosh and newton there is no option for me to
> use this book. So, I bought an e-book licence (but not from peanut press)
> and as I don't have the ability to produce a Newton book from this I
> downloaded the file. I don't know how it was done, but it's great. I don't
> imagine for a minute that any of these companies would have much difficulty
> producing a Newton version. Sure, there's not so many of us but how much
> development costs would there be to increase their market by several
> thousand newton users?
> I believe we have to stick up for our platform by supporting those who
> produce products for us. In the end though I feel obliged to give money for
> Stephen King's effort but not to those companies who have abandoned us.
> Whoever managed to produce this book has demonstrated that this is a viable
> product. How do people suggest we do this officially?
> Richard
>
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