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Article: to or not to digitize.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2009
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By Hillel Italie
The Associated Press
NEW YORK
THE LATEST J.R.R. TOLKIEN PROJECT lasted six years, more than half as long as the author needed to write his "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Getting permission to release a book in electronic form can be as hard as - or harder than - writing it.
"The Tolkien estate wanted to be absolutely confident that e-books were not something ephemeral," said David Roth-Ey, director of business development at HarperCollins UK, which said in late April that the late British author's work - among the world's most popular - would be available for downloads.
"We were finally able to ...