Are you a bookseller taking the book on concession? Are you listing it as 'destroyed' and then taking it to a local bookstore to sell it? No? Didn't think so. Did the book have a cover when you bought it? Your comparison is moot, you are ignoring who actually owns the property, and arguing that because on one non-similar case one can do one thing then by extension that same freedom of action extends to all others. That's nitwit Tim. ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Tim May wrote:
At 12:47 PM -0600 1/10/01, Jim Choate wrote:
Blueheart Alison Sinclair Harper Science Fiction ISBN 0-06-105820-3 $6.50 US
I quote from the 'fly' (or whatever it's called), the facing page to the first page of chapter 1.
"If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book is stolen property."
They've been doing this for at least 20 years.
And incorrectly. Calling something stolen doesn't make it so. I could tear the cover off a book I own and then sell it to Alice.
Publishers resort to FUD the same way TLAs do.
Be sure to notify my local Sheriff's Office, in Santa Cruz County, that I am committing a crime.
Nitwit.
--Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns