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Sun 20 Feb, 2005 07:36 pm
It suprised me that Google couldn't find any ebook versions of Atlas Shrugged but my guess is that it exists. (and it should )
Does anybody have it ?
Why would the copyright holder give it away for free when so many people still buy it?
Somehow, a version of "The Fountainhead" exists.
Anyway, I read the book, I just need an ebook version for a different purpose.
Btw, did we just celebrate her 100th birthday ? It raises a question that who hold the copyright of her book now ?
Quote:Btw, did we just celebrate her 100th birthday ? It raises a question that who hold the copyright of her book now ?
Most likely Leonard Peikoff who heads the Ayn Rand Institute. Ayn turned everything over to him to benefit the Institute AFAIK. Atlas Shrugged still sells quite well, the last I heard.
Whoever holds the copyright to Atlas Shrugged should release it to the public domain as a service to humanity.
I'm pretty sure that itunes has an electronic copy.
Where is John Galt?
ebrown_p wrote:Whoever holds the copyright to Atlas Shrugged should release it to the public domain as a service to humanity.
Hey Mr. ebrown_p.. its a shame u should be speaking of
'services' n
'charity' after reading Atlas Shrugged! Thats the whole centre of the book-
NEED is not the criterion for
HAVING.. what say guys..
Rand's Atlas Shrugged as well as Rand's Anthem, both as ebooks, for 4,99 $ each from
ebooks.com
ebrown_p wrote:Whoever holds the copyright to Atlas Shrugged should release it to the public domain as a service to humanity.
Either that, or obliterate it . . . which would be a much greater service . . .
Oh Setanta, I wouldn't say that.
I still have a fond place in my heart for Atlas Shrugged from my early teen years.
I have long since outgrown the philosophy...But, as far as dogmatic speeches go, the speech on money is one of the best.
Hey, was that another one a them gratuitous slurs against dogs . . .
Re: Where is John Galt?
crucifixation wrote:swaroopgururaj wrote:ebrown_p wrote:Whoever holds the copyright to Atlas Shrugged should release it to the public domain as a service to humanity.
Hey Mr. ebrown_p.. its a shame u should be speaking of
'services' n
'charity' after reading Atlas Shrugged! Thats the whole centre of the book-
NEED is not the criterion for
HAVING.. what say guys..
yeh totally agree
whoever has the copyright should squeeze every last nickel out of that copyright, in keeping with Ms. Rand's veneration of self-interest and capitalism.
Re: Where is John Galt?
crucifixation wrote:swaroopgururaj wrote:ebrown_p wrote:Whoever holds the copyright to Atlas Shrugged should release it to the public domain as a service to humanity.
Hey Mr. ebrown_p.. its a shame u should be speaking of
'services' n
'charity' after reading Atlas Shrugged! Thats the whole centre of the book-
NEED is not the criterion for
HAVING.. what say guys..
yeh totally agree
Do I need to explain ironic humor to y'all...
nah, that would just ruin it.
<<but I thought it was funny>>
Atlas Shrugged is not a book to be tossed aside lightly, as Dorothy Parker said.
She also said that you can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think--perhaps she had Miss Rand in mind . . . Rand was doin' fine when she was a newspaper photographer, she seriously deluded herself, however, when she decided she could write (all her stuff is third-rate melodramatic crap), and even more when she decided she had original ideas to peddle.
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