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June 8th, 2008

1920 Dorothy Scarborough story available at Harpers.com!

By Robert Nagle

You may remember that I was raving about Dorothy Scarborough’s 1925 novel The Wind a while back. Here’s a public domain 1920 essay she wrote for Harpers.

harpers copyright lunacies

Guess who needs a one year subscription to Harpers?

Update: I guess the point of this post was not clear. Harpers has graciously put public domain works online, but is charging people money for it.  Those who control the access also control the public domain. The fact that Harpers would put this essay on the website and simultaneously refuse access to it unless you paid for it is both hilarious and sad. Boo Public Domain! Horray for capitalism!

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