[game_preservation] Classic gaming magazines for sale in digital? Plus Gumpei Yokoi translation

[Devin Monnens]

Now wait a minute... Are you actually allowed to sell Wikipedia articles?
They use Creative Commons licensing. Maybe you can do that if it's
share-alike...

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  Yeah, don't bother, as I said it's just republished Wikipedia articles

> Melanie!

>

> Not to say there won't ever be republished archives, but this won't be it.

>

> Andrew

>

>

> On 18/08/2010 02:43, Melanie Swalwell wrote:

>

>> Devin Monnens wrote:

>>

>>> Was googling something else and an interesting series of products by this

>>> seller came up. They appear to be subscriptions to an online database of

>>> videogame magazines. The description doesn't really tell me much, but

>>> they're being published by Books LLC. This almost seems like a scam...

>>>

>> Well I can vouch for the mag titles -- I've just spent the last year

>> accessing and going through these in hard copy in the State Library of New

>> South Wales.  They are legit.  Some mags from this period are partially

>> scanned and available online.  I would be VERY interested if they were all

>> available digitally.  I am also intrigued as to how this could all be

>> bundled, esp. into a 62 pp paperback??.  While ACP published some of these

>> titles, I find it hard to believe that PBL would own the rights to all these

>> publications -- I know they didn't published ETI, for instance -- though

>> they may well have licenced them.  I wasn't aware PBL was such an archivally

>> aware company...  Maybe its new owners are taking it in new directions,

>> trading off the back catalogue.  James Packer is supposedly more interested

>> in casinos than media these days.  I will do some digging and see what I can

>> find out.

>>

>> Melanie

>>

>>>

>>>

>>> http://www.amazon.com/Australian-Computer-Magazines-Nintendo-Powerplay/dp/1155323173/

>>>

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