Re: both parties concerned/red button

 I greatly appreciate you posting the website, I've tried and tried to find
these stories contained in their original publications, but my library
doesn't have them and can't seem to find them. The stories may have numerous
errors and be incomplete, but it is all I have. And a taste of Salinger,
erroneous as it may be, is better than nothing.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Johnson" <haikux2@yahoo.com>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: both parties concerned/red button

> i imagine that they'll be down soon.
>
> but on the question of it being wrong to put them up
> on the web, i'm of two minds. yes, salinger/the
> magazines still own the copyright. it's their
> property. but red button is not making any money from
> them. the stories are available for free if one can
> find the magazines (no doubt many, many of the issues
> have been cleanly or not so cleanly sliced up. but
> the real way to read the stories is in the magazines,
> ads and all. and a good point was made that these
> 'transcriptions' are fraught with errors.) i imagine
> a good many people don't really have access to a
> university interlibrary loan dept. (i can't see public
> libraries still truly offering this service in today's
> economic climate.) so in a sense red button is
> offering a service to those that would have a
> difficult time to find the stories. how many people
> really are looking at them? it's not like salinger's
> underwear is up on the web.
>
> it's a different question regarding 'the complete
> uncollected stories' that one sees for sale from book
> dealers. there someone is making a profit (the
> original 'greenberg' made quite a profit in the '70s.
> and there have been one or two 'publications' of them
> since in paper format.) but i have to wonder if those
> that shake their heads over red button would pass up
> the paperback editions of the same stories. or
> perhaps already have them on their shelves? kudos to
> their intact ethical system if they have resisted
> purchasing them.
>
> one day the stories will be in the public domain. all
> of his work. i wonder if salinger has figured out how
> to avoid that. imagine the obscene dust jacket
> illustrations and blurbs and other disfigurements all
> of his stories will have to endure.
>
> my posting of the website was not an endorsement per
> se. just a passing along of information to those that
> read my post and might have wanted to read the story
> lauded in someone else's previous post.
>
> kim
>
> --- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> > It seems pretty odd to me that they're able to leave
> > them up without
> > hearing from Salinger's lawyers...
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Will Hochman wrote:
> >
> > > I think it's very wrong to post those stories on
> > the web and it's no
> > > surprise the quality of their "publication" is
> > also shoddy. will
> > > --
> > > Will Hochman
> > >
> > > Associate Professor of English
> > > Southern Connecticut State University
> > > 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> > > 203 392 5024
> > >
> > > http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
> > >
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Received on Wed Sep 18 13:00:52 2002