[ Thanks to Mike
Golvach for this link. ]
“And we don’t just mean man pages and reference
materials, etc. We’ll be using the Online Book Pages at the
University of Pennsylvania. They may not have the variety that
Amazon.com does, but everything listed on their site is available
for online reading (although it says nowhere – that I could find –
that you can’t just download the books). Best of all, you don’t
have to sign up for anything. It’s absolutely free. And they
actually have a book by Stephen King up there (If you recall his
chapter-by-chapter pay-as-you-go online book distribution
experiment, you may recognize the title 🙂 It’s 100% free now but,
to clarify, Stephen King never actually charged for the online
book; he made his book available to anyone who wanted to read it
and only asked that they donated money if they liked it. So, either
everybody hated it or not enough people donated enough money to
keep him interested 😉 No offense to Mr. King. Writing is his
profession and he deserves to get paid for it.”