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

[Andrew Armstrong]

  Yep, and they do forward the books with "This is basically wikipedia's 
work", so it is attributed!

Andrew

On 18/08/2010 15:18, Jose P. Zagal wrote:

> Yes, you can sell Wikipedia articles.

> The text is licensed under creative commons' attribution share-alike 

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> Jose

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> On 8/18/2010 8:09 AM, Devin Monnens wrote:

>> 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...

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

>> <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

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

>>     articles Melanie!

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

>>     be it.

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>>     Andrew

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

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>>         Devin Monnens wrote:

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>>             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...

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>>         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.

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>>         Melanie

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

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