free as in beer – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:32:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Random House, they're maybe starting to get it /College/translation/threepercent/2008/02/27/random-house-theyre-maybe-starting-to-get-it/ /College/translation/threepercent/2008/02/27/random-house-theyre-maybe-starting-to-get-it/#respond Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:17:19 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2008/02/27/random-house-theyre-maybe-starting-to-get-it/ According to , Random House is letting you download—free of charge, those generous scamps—Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children, although only for a limited time. I guess once the time expires everyone’s PDFs…just disappear, or something. Its a nice gesture, anyway, and we’d like to see more people getting on the ‘why don’t we give it away’ bandwagon, especially for those books, unlike Charles’, that aren’t, and likely never will be, on the Times bestseller list.

Now if I can just convince Chad and every agent, author, and cultural institution that this is a good idea for Open Letter and translations…

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