Comments on: Ficbot discovers a ‘Dark House’ of a novel: Free via Manybooks.net http://www.teleread.org/2007/05/30/ficbot-discovers-a-dark-horse-of-a-novel-free-via-manybooksnet/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:25:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joanna http://www.teleread.org/2007/05/30/ficbot-discovers-a-dark-horse-of-a-novel-free-via-manybooksnet/comment-page-1/#comment-392024 Joanna Wed, 30 May 2007 23:34:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6623#comment-392024 Hey, thanks for the link! I havebecome a loyal readeer of your blog and have been mouthing off in comments lately too :) I think we are going to see more of this type of book in coming years: these out of print books being 'found' again via the internet. I think blogs like orus will become more important filters. Manybooks is great, but they had this completely miscategorized (as 'horror' no doubt via implication from the title). And while there are absolutely some books which went out of print for political, financial or social reasons, there are also a healthy lot that went out of print due to natural selection (aka 'they weren't that good.' I came across one of this sort on Gutenberg Australia: a promising-seeming murder mystery which got unfortunately derailed at about the chapter 5 mark when the characters arrive at the country house and gather in the parlour, after which one of these says, paraphrased, "So, what are your feelings about the monarchy?" I slogged through four further chapters of ruminations and discussions on this theme before I put the book away, wondering whether I was ever going to get the promised murder :) Hey, thanks for the link! I havebecome a loyal readeer of your blog and have been mouthing off in comments lately too :)

I think we are going to see more of this type of book in coming years: these out of print books being ‘found’ again via the internet. I think blogs like orus will become more important filters. Manybooks is great, but they had this completely miscategorized (as ‘horror’ no doubt via implication from the title).

And while there are absolutely some books which went out of print for political, financial or social reasons, there are also a healthy lot that went out of print due to natural selection (aka ‘they weren’t that good.’ I came across one of this sort on Gutenberg Australia: a promising-seeming murder mystery which got unfortunately derailed at about the chapter 5 mark when the characters arrive at the country house and gather in the parlour, after which one of these says, paraphrased, “So, what are your feelings about the monarchy?” I slogged through four further chapters of ruminations and discussions on this theme before I put the book away, wondering whether I was ever going to get the promised murder :)

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