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About Litrix Reading Room
Litrix Reading Room is edited
by Stan Jones, a mystery novelist and book-lover in Anchorage, Alaska. (This
is why the Reading Room devotes a section to the literature of the North.)
All books in the Reading Room
are either out of copyright or the copyright holder has allowed free electronic
distribution. That's how we can provide them free of charge to readers.
Someday, we hope also to make
just-published commercial books available in the Reading Room, but that presumably
will require the development of some mechanism for paying the publishers
-- either advertising support, or payments collected electronically from
readers.
However, it is Litrix policy
that public-domain works will always be free to guests of the Reading Room.
And we hope that the economics of the Internet will develop in such a way
that just-published books can also be made available free to readers with
advertising support.
The out-of-pocket costs of
maintaining the Reading Room -- such as the fees we pay to the service that
hosts Litrix -- are covered by our relationship with Amazon.Com, which works
in two ways.
One way is that Litrix receives
a small commission if you visit Amazon via a link on Litrix and then buy a
book or other product from Amazon.
The other way is through donations, handled
by the Amazon Honor System. If you can help, please support Litrix in this
way so that we can continue to expand our offerings and remain free.
Or, if you prefer to donate
directly, you can send me a check at the address below. (Please make your
check out to me personally, Stan Jones, not to Litrix, as Litrix at present
is such a humble enterprise that it doesn't even have its own bank account!)
Some of the books Litrix makes
available online are also available in special Litrix
print editions.
Credit Where
Credit's Due
The raw texts for Litrix books
come from a host of different collections and archives, but special thanks
go to the Gutenberg Project.
In addition, my friend and
fellow book-lover, contributing editor Robert Raven, merits recognition for
his often-heroic efforts to find obscure but classic texts on the Internet
and, when that fails, to input them himself!
If:
* You have a suggestion for
improving the Reading Room,
* You want to request a specific book
be made available,
* You find a work on the Reading Room
that is still in copyright, or
* You have a complaint or question about
the Reading Room,
please contact me by regular
mail, or by email to Editor (at) Litrix (dot) com. (Sorry for the weird
way of writing the email address. It's done to defeat the address harvesting
robots used by spammers.)
And what about my mystery
novels? They are set in Chukchi, a fictional Eskimo village in the Alaskan
Arctic, and feature an Eskimo state trooper named Nathan Active. The first,
"White Sky, Black Ice," was published in May 1999. If you are interested,
you can find an excerpt right here on
Litrix. The second, "Shaman Pass," was published in May 2003. You can find
an excerpt here. And, of course, you
can read reviews of the two novels and purchase them through our links to
Amazon.Com. If you want to know more, you can visit the web site I set up
for my books: sjbooks.com. Happy
reading!
Stan Jones
Litrix Reading
Room
Box 240264
Anchorage, Alaska 99524-0264
About Litrix Reading Room
Litrix Reading Room is edited
by Stan Jones, a mystery novelist and book-lover in Anchorage, Alaska. (This
is why the Reading Room devotes a section to the literature of the North.)
All books in the Reading Room
are either out of copyright or the copyright holder has allowed free electronic
distribution. That's how we can provide them free of charge to readers.
Someday, we hope also to make
just-published commercial books available in the Reading Room, but that presumably
will require the development of some mechanism for paying the publishers
-- either advertising support, or payments collected electronically from
readers.
However, it is Litrix policy
that public-domain works will always be free to guests of the Reading Room.
And we hope that the economics of the Internet will develop in such a way
that just-published books can also be made available free to readers with
advertising support.
The out-of-pocket costs of
maintaining the Reading Room -- such as the fees we pay to the service that
hosts Litrix -- are covered by our relationship with Amazon.Com, which works
in two ways.
One way is that Litrix receives
a small commission if you visit Amazon via a link on Litrix and then buy a
book or other product from Amazon.
The other way is through donations, handled
by the Amazon Honor System. If you can help, please support Litrix in this
way so that we can continue to expand our offerings and remain free.
Or, if you prefer to donate
directly, you can send me a check at the address below. (Please make your
check out to me personally, Stan Jones, not to Litrix, as Litrix at present
is such a humble enterprise that it doesn't even have its own bank account!)
Some of the books Litrix makes
available online are also available in special Litrix
print editions.
Credit Where
Credit's Due
The raw texts for Litrix books
come from a host of different collections and archives, but special thanks
go to the Gutenberg Project.
In addition, my friend and
fellow book-lover, contributing editor Robert Raven, merits recognition for
his often-heroic efforts to find obscure but classic texts on the Internet
and, when that fails, to input them himself!
If:
* You have a suggestion for
improving the Reading Room,
* You want to request a specific book
be made available,
* You find a work on the Reading Room
that is still in copyright, or
* You have a complaint or question about
the Reading Room,
please contact me by regular
mail, or by email to Editor (at) Litrix (dot) com. (Sorry for the weird
way of writing the email address. It's done to defeat the address harvesting
robots used by spammers.)
And what about my mystery
novels? They are set in Chukchi, a fictional Eskimo village in the Alaskan
Arctic, and feature an Eskimo state trooper named Nathan Active. The first,
"White Sky, Black Ice," was published in May 1999. If you are interested,
you can find an excerpt right here on
Litrix. The second, "Shaman Pass," was published in May 2003. You can find
an excerpt here. And, of course, you
can read reviews of the two novels and purchase them through our links to
Amazon.Com. If you want to know more, you can visit the web site I set up
for my books: sjbooks.com. Happy
reading!
Stan Jones
Litrix Reading
Room
Box 240264
Anchorage, Alaska 99524-0264
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