-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <3.0.2.32.19971201112809.036f79cc@panix.com>, on 12/01/97 at 11:28 AM, Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> said:
A conclusion that Paladin directed Hit Man to a discrete group rather than to the public at large would be supported, even if not established, by the evidence that Hit Man is not generally available or sold to the public from the bookshelves of local bookstores, but, rather, is obtainable as a practical matter only by catalogue. Paladin Press is a mail order company, and for the most part does not sell books through retail outlets. In order to procure a copy of Hit Man,
The logic in this conclusion is all wrong. The reason Hit Man, and other such "undrground" text, are not available on the local book stores is because the major publishing houses will not print them! Paladin Press is a mail order company because major retailers will not shelf the books that they print. I can hardly see Paladin turning down a 100,000 copy order from Barns & Nobel or Books-A-Million or any of the other major chains. I am quite sure that if one looks at the records of Paladin one will see that they sold their books to whomever wished to purchase them (after all thet is the business they are in). I can see it now the 1st Amendment only applies if you can sell a million copies of your words. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNIL4a49Co1n+aLhhAQLEVwP+OTtNmi/A1Y//YxYLwjyGmD1QWqjmPB5U 5JRhD/kwxSvdSctmunDVta/jWNsdBpEubavex67zQ75/XEq99SJvp2BBBjN7H9bJ aEhmTcYN8jqodSzXeLmeNGBlyKVsA/vdMybPa+6Q2KkMWWMY0Y9pgWX8kk1K1sfF wjtywX/G04I= =uGPm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----