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I don't think that's true actually as an e-book has little or no cost and money payed for downloading onto a Kindle or computer will be nearly all profit. Don't know what % the writer gets but i bet they aren't out of pocket...

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Check this out Dianne.
The Authors Guild - E-Book Royalty Math: The House Always Wins

E-books also incur tax as software.

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Printed books are zero rated...e-books are charged at 20%VAT.

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That hadn't even occurred to me, if anything I thought I'd read somewhere that it was easier for previously unpublished writers to get their work into the public domain via electronic means. As of course it is for unknown musicians.

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Complicated -my brain's working on the right-hand side today -can't get my head round it Margaret!
Funny thing is I once did one of those psychological tests at Uni. that showed I was about 93% left -dominant - that will explain why I can't understand things on days like today...my mind is elsewhere, what little is left of it.:rolleyes:

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"The primroses were over." Richard Adams -Watership Down.

Loved this book as a girl - was also into James Herriot. It was the period when i wanted to be a vet...

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Was talking to friend Charlotte about this one yesterday -she had to study Lawrence at Uni. and found him hard going...

‘The Bottoms’ succeeded to ‘Hell Row’. Sons and Lovers.

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"What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare?" W. H. Davies, "Leisure".

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"Marx has copletely changed the way I view the world," declared the Pallières boy this morning, although ordinarily he says nary a word to me.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (written originally in French)

There is a film version of this book which is also really good.

The last words of this book are actually better:
"Don't worry Renée, I won't commit suicide and i won't burn a thing.
Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never.
Beauty, in this world."