Comments on: Virtual Law Goes to Press, Pre-Orders Available

By: Benjamin Duranske

Benjamin Duranske — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:28:26 +0000

@24 – great. I am really glad to hear that will help with international shipping. Actually, I just checked, and Amazon moved even faster than I hoped. It is there now, at a significant discount. They do not have a cover image up, the page count is wrong (it’s around 450, with appendices, not 250) and the publication date is wrong (they have it in October, and unless there’s something goofy with the distribution mechanism that I do not understand, they should have it in the very near future). I’m working on all of these issues, but there is a product page now, so that may be helpful for international readers.

http://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Law…160442009X/

Also, I talked to the publisher, and they’re going to seriously consider e-distribution as well, which should help international readers too. I’ll keep on this and let you know what comes of it.

Finally, a note of clarification. Readers who happen click on my name on the Amazon page will find a link to a book called “Waterdrum Science” that is available occasionally via Amazon Marketplace. That is a book my mother, Carolyn Petty, wrote and published in 1996. It is a guide for teachers who want to teach science through integration with an art curriculum, with a particular focus on Native American art, storytelling, and history. I did some proofreading and light editing for her, but Amazon has me incorrectly listed as an author. Anyway, credit where credit is due, that one is all my mom’s work!

By: Darryl Woodford

Darryl Woodford — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:38:34 +0000

@19 – Just returning to this, but yes Amazon US would be slightly cheaper. More importantly, when it goes to Amazon US, it also becomes available at regional affiliates like Amazon UK and various marketplace sellers who are even cheaper.

By: Taran Rampersad

Taran Rampersad — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:48:10 +0000

On reading the comments above again…

As Benjamin will attest, I’m always the one jumping up and down saying that the world is bigger than the United States. When I did the review, this was heavily on my mind – but given that there is little in the way of precedent at international levels in such things, it is slim pickings (unless one of you wants to sue someone else for something). That said, I think the best ways to explain the international legal issues are that they are at least partially derived from internet legal issues, and that it is not necessarily as much of a legal question as it is an economic negotiation.

The latter, of course, is where I think Bloomfield and others are missing the boat. To quote Chief Seattle:

“Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

That pretty much sums up international legal and economic issues in a very generic way. If there is imbalance, it usually comes back to balance itself out somehow. Antigua recently used serious WTO leverage to balance out something that may now be imbalanced again… :-)

By: Benjamin Duranske

Benjamin Duranske — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:26:48 +0000

@20 – It’s being printed literally right now, so you could ask your library to order one. Alternatively, if you know a professor at your school who would evaluate it for potential use it in a class, shoot me an email and I’ll put the professor in touch with the right people at the publisher.

By: LRRochet

LRRochet — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:24:53 +0000

Please ignore my typo. Thank you.

By: LRRochet

LRRochet — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:18:23 +0000

Hi, I am a student at law student at Indiana University-Bloomington. I am writing an article about the potential applicability of RL identity theft law to virtual identity theft. Is there any way I can get an advance copy of this book?

By: Benjamin Duranske

Benjamin Duranske — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:01:48 +0000

@18 – I have gotten a surprising number of notes like this, and I want to thank you all. I’ve got emails from the Netherlands, France, Germany, Brazil, and a half-dozen other countries. I had no idea VB had so many international readers or that this topic had such a huge potential international audience even though the book focuses largely on U.S. law. I suspect the publisher did not either.

I am scheduling a call with the publisher about this, and will try to get some better solution than the current one for international shipping. I’m even going to explore e-distribution for international readers. This is somewhat uncharted territory for the publisher, but I’ll do everything I can.

Let me ask VB’s international readers who are interested in the book this — when it goes to Amazon (not too long from now) are you able to get a better deal on shipping that way, or is that just as expensive to order books via the U.S. based Amazon.com?

By: Jotaum Dix

Jotaum Dix — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:45:29 +0000

First of all, congratulations!!

I deeply hope you follow the suggestion given by scven on 23, March. Here in Brazil, this subject is still undiscovered. Because of it, if you want to study this topic and related ones you have to do in English. But the international shipping is very expensive, as pointed Darryl Woodford on 21, March.

Despite the fact of U.S. law system is common-law, Brazilian market is promising. Virtual communities like second life, orkut, and similar are becoming ever more popular and law problems are emerging as well. As virtual and real lawyer I wonder for learning and knowing the entire material of your book, mainly the international application approach.

By: Taran Rampersad

Taran Rampersad — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:11:11 +0000

Great book. I just reviewed it:

http://www.knowprose.com/node/18832

I hated giving you that spare point, by the way. ;-)

By: Josh Field

Josh Field — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:02:39 +0000

Kickin’ virtual ass!