On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
Dunno what the stink is about. We've had trailers and teasers and extracts and such for many years, though never in huge numbers. This is not likely to be the start of a torrent.
It's completely on-mission for us. There's no commercial intention, hidden or manifest. This was just a well-established writer who got in touch to make this offer. It happens sometimes, and I like it when it does.
There certainly is a commercial intention; there is no point in putting in making only the first half of a novel online except in convincing people to buy the whole thing. And it degrades the work the rest of us put in; when people start feeling that PG includes a bunch of commercial spam, it'll make them less likely to come here and read what we have. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.