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Default On-Topic (Cookbooks, Kitchenware)-slightly morbid

sf wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:58:36 -0400, blake murphy
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:26:44 -0700, sf wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:26:12 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I obviously am not looking to maximize my money. I would like to
>>>> encourage the dissemination of information, which brings me back
>>>> to MSU and Duke and other places that have a good start on making
>>>> things available online.
>>> How would you be helping that with your cookbooks? Google and Project
>>> Gutenberg also have books online.

>> but project gutenberg is for books that are out of copyright - i.e., in the
>> public domain. i don't think many cookbooks fall in that category.
>>

> I know. I sincerely doubt a university is going to pay authors and
> publishers for the privilege of putting her cookbooks online. They'll
> sell them at some library type sale, so sell them yourself, donate the
> money to a favorite library and save on shipping charges.
>

Well, lots of my books and booklets are antiques, soooo...

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Jean B.