Must we learn about history illegally? (somebody, please sell Story of Civilization MP3s legitimately!)
A Google search of story of civilization mp3 reveals a distinct lack of legitimacy. The book series by Will Durant, which elegantly covers a wide swath of world history with moderate brevity, is apparently not available for purchase in audiobook form except in cassette format. Cassette? What the frak is that?
The latest round of publishing went to a publisher called MJF Books. If you have a few minutes, please help me in scanning the first hundred or so Google entries for MJF Books and see if you can get a site with a phone number or email address. I couldn't, and I spent more than a few minutes.
So, this blog post is a seed which I hope in time will compete reasonably with torrent sites in the search engines for phrases like "story of civilization mp3" and "MJF books" until someone can tell me who I can petition to get some legitimate mp3s of this totally awesome series.
Credit to my friend and boss, Chad Jones for recommending this bad-ass set of books and for sharing in the woes of being driven to piratedom through inefficient capitalism.
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You could buy the cassettes, so that your mp3s are just a legal "backup", and then "store" the cassettes with an English language school in Zambia...
David: do you know how many cassettes are involved? I just want to buy the audio in a format I can use -- not take up a second career in ripping audio from cassettes. ;) (I don't even have a cassette player.)
Perhaps companies should consider providing product in formats their customers want, instead of bemoaning piracy.
Hey man, pirates are people too - http://somalipirate.livejournal.com/
The English language school students in Zambia would laugh at the cassettes and download the Mp3's while muttering "don't these stupid Americans know about bittorrent?"
David, the problem I see is the prohibitive costs of shipping a metric ton of cassette tapes overseas.
hello
please sell this series on mp3
i would buy it
best regards martin from norway
The full set is is eleven volumes of audio and a couple of hundred cassettes. Cassettes are hard to store and inconvenient to use.
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