Anyone can put hundreds of books on a single CD. (Isn't technology wonderful?) But we're interested in providing not just large quantities of books at ridiculously low prices, but also providing a "context". The selection matters. Putting the right books together in ways that make them easily accessible can create a unique context that makes it possible to better understand a region of the world, an historical period, or an author. That's our goal.

You can reach us at 617-469-2269. seltzer@samizdat.com 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132

The B&R Samizdat Express is a small book publishing company, founded in 1974 . Since July 1993, we have been doing business on the Internet, mainly selling public domain texts in electronic form (classic works of literature and government documents). In 2001 we began selling such texts in collections on CDs and DVDs. In 2010 we added an online store for selling such books by download, as "portable" ebooks that work on Kindle, Sony, Barnes & Noble, and other reading devices www.samizdat.com/store

Our Web site www.samizdat.com, started in May 1995, attracts a broad audience of book lovers, Internet novices, people interested in the prospects of business on the Internet, educators, and the blind.

The company is run by Richard and Barbara Seltzer. Richard is an independent Internet writer, speaker and consultant. He worked for Digital Equipment (now Compaq) for 19 years, where was the Internet Evangelist in the Internet Business Unit. He was one of the handful of people who helped Digital to recognize and take advantage of new business opportunities on the Internet as the first major company to use the World Wide Web for marketing . He helped customers rethink their business models. His book "The AltaVista Search Revolution" was published by Osborne McGraw-Hill; his "Shop Online the Lazy Way" was published by Macmillan; and his "Web Business Boot Camp" was published by Wiley. He has also published novels, children's stories, plays, and short stories.

Barbara has experience in marketing, in use of the Internet, and in early childhood education.

B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132. 617-469-2269
seltzer@samizdat.com



Teachers' and Students' Guide: Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD ROM

Reviews of our CDs at Large Print Reviews: "Talking" software included on this book CD:

Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

When the rapid, automatic 10 Mbyte installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows.

When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and tuype whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. You can listen to samples at their site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.

UPGRADE POLICY

We will continuously add books to our Classic Collections CDs as they become available over the Internet. Our online table of contents pages will indicate the dates when particular new books are added. If you buy a Book Collection CD from us, you have the right to buy an upgraded version of the same CD for just $10 per CD, up to four times per year. Likewise, if you buy a Book Collection DVD from us, you can buy an upgraded version of that same DVD for just $30 per DVD, up to four times per year. The "upgraded" version will contain all the texts, not just the new ones.

GUARANTEE

If for any reason you are not satisfied with any product you purchase directly from us, you may return it for replacement or refund.

STANDARD DELIVERY -- CDs SENT BY US MAIL

Orders are normally filled within two days of receipt. We ship CDs by U.S. Mail, first class in the U.S. and airmail outside the U.S. We ship traditional printed books and videotapes as media mail.

PAYMENT

You may pay by credt card (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover) here. You can also use PayPal (seltzer@samizdat.com) or Yahoo's PayDirect service. If you prefer to pay by check, please make it out to Richard Seltzer and send it to 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132. If you would like to pay by credit card but prefer not to do so online, we need to know your credit card number and expiration date, plus your full name and street address. You could provide this information by regular postal mail (33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132), by email (seltzer@samizdat.com), or by phone (617) 469-2269.

US -- In the U.S., there is a flat charge of $3 for shipping and handling, regardless of the size of the order. Massachusetts residents add 5% for sales tax.

OUTSIDE THE U.S. -- Shipping outside the US is $6, air mail, regardless of the size of the order. Credit card is the simplest and least expensive way for you to pay. If you prefer to pay by check, the payment must be in U.S. dollars. It also must be in the form of a check payable by a U.S. bank.

FORMAT

Each CD has an index page to make it easy for you to find and open the books you want with your browser and/or with a recent version of Word. The texts themselves are in plain, unenhanced text form, to make it easy for you to use import them into your favorite word processing program and change the fonts and type size for your convenience.

We also include ReadPlease software, which, once installed on your hard drive, lets you listen to as well as read the books on your CDs.

GUIDELINES FOR USE OF THESE BOOKS

We provide texts as they are found on the Internet. We do no additional editing. We believe the people who originally input or scanned these texts made every effort to be accurate. But we cannot guarantee the accuracy. Please accept these texts "as is," in the spirit of sharing which prevails on the Internet. When you do make copies, please treat the information and its originators with respect. Think of this service as an extension of the Internet and treat the information with the same consideration as if you had obtained it directly from the Internet. Always credit your sources and respect the wishes of the originators of the information, as stated in their documents. Please note that when the document itself does not clearly indicate whether the material can be freely copied, we contact the source of the information for permission to include it on our diskettes.

Many thanks to the people who make texts freely available in electronic form.