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<div id="AOLMsgPart_9_879e542a-4c80-478d-ab20-0cdad6cd85fd" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"><pre style="text-align: left;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Many thanks to Gary Leach and all the others who have explained the ins, outs, ups, and downs of copyright laws, etc. </span></font></tt></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">for the future of electronic publishing! It still remains to be seen whether the companies will hold on to the post-sale status</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">of their products so tightly that they limit the sales of their products! Psychologically, when a person pays money for a product,</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">they want to feel that the company is no longer hanging around them to tell them what they can or cannot do with it.</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br>
</span></font></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It also remains to be seen whether e-books/e-comic books are a viable product. I would think yes, but who knows?</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Whatever happens, I still think comic books, and particularly Disney Comics in the tradition of Barks and Rosa, (and others e.g. William Van Horn,</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pat Block, et al.) are an important gateway to future literacy for children. The optimistic cultural values of the Disney tradition</span></font></tt></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(e.g. diligence, faithfulness, persistence, curiosity, ambition, courage), devoid of the dark gruesomeness found in the super-hero/super-villain genre, </span></font></tt></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><tt><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">need to be continued. </span></font></tt></pre><pre style="text-align: left;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br>
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