Comments on: Are publishers finally appreciating ebooks? Beautiful Children as a PDF http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/26/are-publishers-finally-appreciating-ebooks-beautiful-children-as-a-pdf/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:58:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Fre H Olson http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/26/are-publishers-finally-appreciating-ebooks-beautiful-children-as-a-pdf/#comment-725860 Fre H Olson Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:54:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/26/are-publishers-finally-appreciating-ebooks-beautiful-children-as-a-pdf/#comment-725860 As of 9:48 am CST I've tried the page http://www.beautifulchildren.net/read/ several times and get the message "problem loading page" I suspect concentrating the demand into 24 hours overloads their servers. Testing the site for http:/siteuptime.com fails sometimes from Chicago less often from San Francisco (where it is still before 8am) I can get to the page using the Lynx text browser and wget from my bay area ISP but so far have not figured out how to do the download which is initiated thru javascript. As of 9:48 am CST I’ve tried the page
http://www.beautifulchildren.net/read/
several times and get the message
“problem loading page” I suspect concentrating the
demand into 24 hours overloads their servers.

Testing the site for http:/siteuptime.com fails sometimes from Chicago less often from San Francisco
(where it is still before 8am)
I can get to the page using the Lynx text browser and wget from my bay area ISP but so far have not figured out how to do the download which is initiated thru javascript.

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