[Blindmath] Unauthorized publication of my free online tutorials byAmazon

[Richard Baldwin]

Actually, what Amazon did was probably legal, just not very ethical. When I
publish material at cnx.org under a Creative Commons license, I
automatically give permission for others to use the material, even for
commercial purposes, provide that they give me proper attribution. I'm not
certain about the attribution in the Amazon Kindle edition since I haven't
seen inside of it. There isn't much attribution on the Amazon web site other
than my name, however.

What you could do is to write reviews on the Amazon web sites and mention
that the collections are available for free at cnx.org. You might also
mention that I update them frequently and wonder out loud if Amazon plans to
track the updates and republish the Kindle version each time I update one of
the modules.

Regarding the OOP book, I  barely got started on that when I began working
on the drawing program, so it isn't very far along yet. You probably
shouldn't count on it being available for you to use at TSVBI. I'm also
thinking about writing something about how to use SWT for experienced blind
programmers like yourself, and I may put that in the queue ahead of the OOP
book.

Dick Baldwin

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Should one of us report this to Amazon?
>
> Also, I was not aware that you were writing a book on accessible object
> oriented programming. It looks good, and depending on the student's needs, I
> may use it at TSBVI.
>
> Amanda
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Baldwin" <
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:16 PM
> Subject: [Blindmath] Unauthorized publication of my free online tutorials
> byAmazon
>
>
>  Please visit the following websites and take a look around:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/**Accessible-Physics-Concepts-**
>> Students-ebook/dp/B005MZBLV0<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Accessible-Physics-Concepts-Students-ebook/dp/B005MZBLV0>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/**Accessible-Object-Oriented-**
>> Programming-Concepts-ebook/dp/**B005MZ96Z8/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&**
>> ie=UTF8&qid=1316573795&sr=1-3<http://www.amazon.com/Accessible-Object-Oriented-Programming-Concepts-ebook/dp/B005MZ96Z8/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316573795&sr=1-3>
>>
>> I want everyone in these groups to know that this material was converted
>> to
>> Kindle format and published by Amazon without my knowledge.
>>
>> The primary websites where the material can be viewed free of charge, are:
>>
>> http://cnx.org/content/**col11294/latest/<http://cnx.org/content/col11294/latest/>
>>
>> http://cnx.org/content/**col11349/latest/<http://cnx.org/content/col11349/latest/>
>>
>> I also want you to know that I receive no compensation in any form for
>> publication of the material either at CNX.org or on Amazon.
>>
>> Dick Baldwin
>>
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Professor of Computer Information Technology
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