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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-04-06 04:02 pm

[ SECRET POST #2651 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2651 ⌋

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rubbertea: fanart of lester nygaard from the fargo tv show (Default)

[personal profile] rubbertea 2014-04-06 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
you can't exactly find free, legal, e-books laying around on the internet, though, can you?

(Anonymous) 2014-04-06 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I honestly do not know whether you're trolling or if you've never heard of works in the public domain and places like the Gutenberg Project.
rubbertea: fanart of lester nygaard from the fargo tv show (Default)

[personal profile] rubbertea 2014-04-06 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
of course i know about this. i thought it was a given. but these books have been out for years and years. there's no comparison to be made with fanfic.

(Anonymous) 2014-04-07 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
You're also aware that there's a lot of contemporary original fiction available for free on the internet? Not just books out of copyright, like Gutenberg, or fanfic, but authors who put their e-books online for free?

Aparently on amazon there's a whole section of free e-books (short stories to full novels). I don't use it myself (too many technical issues each time, complete headache) but I'm reliably told that's the case.

Personally, I get my free novels/short stories mostly from the writers' own blogs or sites. It's really quite common, especially for new writers. Or more established writers may offer their back catalogue this way.

Are these comparisons perhaps closer?

(Anonymous) 2014-04-07 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
same anon above

Just to explain further, I have over 110 books/short stories on my e-reader right now. All except 2 of them were downloaded for free, completely legally as well.

The 2 books on my e-reader that I actually paid for were also once free e-books. But the writer recently struck a major publishing deal and I thought I'd support her by buying the books I already read for free, when they were up on her blog.

(Anonymous) 2014-04-06 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yes, you can.

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[personal profile] diet_poison 2014-04-07 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
That's obnoxious.

(Anonymous) 2014-04-07 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
so is that person being ignorant

(Anonymous) 2014-04-06 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
aside from Project Gutenberg, there are literally hundreds-- maybe thousands-- of free ebooks on Amazon and other ebook sites.