[WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

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Fri Dec 3 22:56:32 UTC 2010


Yeah, but my odds of getting a Kindle gratis from their benevolence are?? 

It's a bit like applauding the Ritz Hotel for giving away free coffee with a
$150 meal.

-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Carson
Sent: 03 December 2010 20:16
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com>
wrote:
>
> Also on the example page linked (James Joyce) you can of course just
> scroll down to the Project Gutenberg link and get most of his works
> for free! Although they did think to remove the Wikisource link.

To be fair, for the works of James Joyce which are out of copyright and thus
available from Project Gutenberg, Amazon also has Kindle editions for $0.00,
so it's not as if they're afraid of free digital copies of public domain
works.

Cheers,
David...

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