This special edition of the book commemorates the revival and the deserving success of an astounding, evergreen story in the form of Steve Mcqueen’s acclaimed movie, 12 Years A Slave.
The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama, and received nine Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor.
An incredible, true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom. No fiction, no exaggeration.
A slave to materialism channeled by OzBargain. And I'm motherfriken lovin every single minute of it.
Thanks TA!
No problems. I find it amusing when people neg a thank you. Speaks volumes about a sad minority on this site.
truly unfortunate..
thanks TA as well =]
will read this on the train
It may make poor entertainment but it's an important story. If you think 10s of minutes of watching people do chores is boring, imagine you or someone you love having to live it for 12 years after being kidnapped.
the purpose of movies and books is entertainment. 99.99% of people who have access to the movie would already be anti slavery so there is no other purpose.
why would I be obligated to read it just because it is an important story?
I only watched the movies because many professional critics approve… and was disappointed
Of coruse you aren't obligated to read or watch. People do read and watch things for other purposes than entertainment. Textbooks aren't made for entertainment (though learning can be fun). Documentaries don't have to be about entertaining. Mainstream movie adaptations - okay if they're not entertaining it's a little pointless as that really is their purpose. I still say it's important that it exists even if it's not a lot of fun and even if you don't want to see it.
Interesting.. .Published by PIRATES.
The book was written in 1853 and is in the public domain (ie free, basically). I'm not negging the deal because I suppose some people will find it useful to have the book in their Google Play Books library, but other than that it's not a particularly noteworthy deal.
I saw several other versions in the play store that do cost money - no idea what value they're adding there, but I'd be more concerned about those guys ripping people off than this "Pirates" publisher, who are at least not charging for a thing that's meant to be free in the first place.
If it's public domain can't you do what you like though - eg. charge money when you publish it? (I have very little understanding of the different licensing arrangements and public domain works so I might be well off)
With regard to charging money for public domain titles - some would probably just be preying on the customer's ignorance (that it could be gotten for free or cheaper or whatever) while others do actualy put work in as far as editing, formatting, typesetting, et cetera. For popular works, it's not uncommon for your more established publishers to also have a foreword which they've obviously paid someone to write and which they would factor into what they are charging.
As for telling the specific differences between editions, some sites like Amazon let you preview the first few pages (so that would give you some idea), but it can be really hit and miss as far as quality goes (especially with the free or next-to-free versions).
Sure, some publishers will add value in the ways you've mentioned - I meant that I wasn't sure about the other versions of this specific book in the Play store, as I don't feel like investigating their differences :)
The adding-foreword-to-public-domain-titles model seems to be more appropriate for hard copy media, considering associated costs of manufacture that are much higher than digital books. Formatting/typesetting can be significant but for me, it's rarely worth paying extra just for the privilege of a foreword on a digital book. Opinions are cheap on the internet - if I want to read what somebody thought of a classic novel it doesn't usually take much searching to find out.
Editions with significant annotations and analysis by people who know what they're talking about (or with high-quality illustrations, for instance) might be worth some extra cash.
How do i get this without giving them my payment details?
Install Google rewards and get a google wallet. It's taken me almost 6 months but I made about $17 or so answering a few dozen survey questions over that time.
Just open a paypal account.
Should I have read 1-11 Years a Slave before I read this or does it not matter?
Free audio at Librivox, just have to put up with some dodgy American accents (says the guy from London)
https://librivox.org/twelve-years-a-slave-by-solomon-northup…
The true story of a former Kogan employee