Comments on: Thrift Editions http://archive.tylerdave.com/000177/ All the stuff from when Dave was actually called Tylerdave. Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:00:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tb http://archive.tylerdave.com/000177/#comment-500 tb Sat, 03 May 2003 15:18:00 +0000 http://archive.tylerdave.com/177/thrift-editions/#comment-500 And yet Congress passes retarded laws like the <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act" rel="nofollow">Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act</a> that (retroactively) extends copyright to life plus 70 years (and even longer for corporate authored works). Some ridiculously large percentage of works are completely out-of-print before their copyright expires. Ugh. And yet Congress passes retarded laws like the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act that (retroactively) extends copyright to life plus 70 years (and even longer for corporate authored works). Some ridiculously large percentage of works are completely out-of-print before their copyright expires. Ugh.

]]> By: Kt http://archive.tylerdave.com/000177/#comment-499 Kt Sat, 03 May 2003 14:45:17 +0000 http://archive.tylerdave.com/177/thrift-editions/#comment-499 Considering that most of the paperback novels I buy for class are $10-15 apiece, Thrift Editions are great. They have a lot of small poetry and play volumes too, so I'll buy some of those when I study for my Masters exam this summer. They're not used in an academic setting much, though, because they're not edited very well (if at all). Translations tend to be very old (again, copyright expiration), there's no bibliography or annotations, and of course no scholarly essays. But if they made the cover designs prettier, you'd be damn sure I'd have a library full of 'em. The whole "affordable editions of classics" trend is getting major buzz in the book business, btw. Barnes and Noble's in-house "Classics" line is rapidly <a href="http://writenews.com/2003/041803_bn_classics.htm" rel="nofollow">expanding</a>, and publishers are realizing that classics <a href="http://www.helenair.com/articles/2003/03/11/business/e03030903_03.txt" rel="nofollow">attract pretentious yuppies</a>. I guess this is good... Considering that most of the paperback novels I buy for class are $10-15 apiece, Thrift Editions are great. They have a lot of small poetry and play volumes too, so I’ll buy some of those when I study for my Masters exam this summer.

They’re not used in an academic setting much, though, because they’re not edited very well (if at all). Translations tend to be very old (again, copyright expiration), there’s no bibliography or annotations, and of course no scholarly essays. But if they made the cover designs prettier, you’d be damn sure I’d have a library full of ‘em.

The whole “affordable editions of classics” trend is getting major buzz in the book business, btw. Barnes and Noble’s in-house “Classics” line is rapidly expanding, and publishers are realizing that classics attract pretentious yuppies. I guess this is good…

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