[PLUG] google docs
Richard C. Steffens
rsteff at comcast.net
Tue Jul 28 14:41:41 UTC 2009
TedKubaska wrote:
> In the same sense my buddy is soliciting comments from friends and family. Google docs from a technical standpoint is excellent for this. But the EULA scares him. We've scoured the net and get lots of conflicting info. Now I personally don't think there's a snowball's chance of some agent taking a bite on some finished work of his, but he doesn't want to kabosh that possibility.
>
Having friends/associates read your yet-to-be-published work is common
in the book world. When you open a book and look at the Acknowledgments
section at the front, you are looking at a list of folk who have
probably read some or all of the book before it was published. They have
provided a critique of the work, and that is a plus to editors and
publishers.
So, the key concept is the meaning of "published" to the publisher your
friend ends up talking to.
IANAL either, but I'd expect that if I put something on my web site,
linked from somewhere else on my web site, that would make the work
publicly available, but if I don't link it, and send the url to a
friend, then it isn't publicly available; it's privately available.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
www.dicksteffens.com
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