Reading Bram Stoker's Dracula In Real Time

Interesting, and as long as copyright creeps can't meddle, it's a free copy of Dracula, in a neat way. Copyrights run out after how many years?

Dracula was never under copyright in the US. In the UK, it became public domain in 1962. According to Wikipedia.

Looks like I'll get to read Dracula, finally. I like it.

How odd, I was feeling obsessed to watch the 1992 version last night and finishing up watching it today. Maybe this date was somewhere in the back of my head. That and I had been listening to the score all week.

Dracula has always been a big part of my personal literary tradition and was one of the first pieces of literature that really got me in the library doing a lot of research about writers and folks tales.

This is a wonderful idea, however I just went to read the first installment, and he is presenting it on a black background with white script, which makes it painful, for me anyway, to read. I subbed via rss, and am hoping to read it that way. This is a brilliant idea. I hope others decide to do the same with other books.

Wow.. jus subscribed me too.. Agree with Carolina.. Its hard to read on a black background.. pains a lot..

@ Miss Cellania
:) Yea It was on neatorama previously.. :D the author's assistants failed/neglected to do apply for the copyright.. Sad story for their family..

Maybe some corporation can apply for a retroactive copyright as has happened with other works in some nations. Isn't that what they did with Peter Pan? That way a stranglehold can be placed that will last decades if not centuries. Or, a corporation can claim to have a copyright, demand payments from others, and dare anyone to take them to court and face staggering expenses (I'm thinking about a very popular special occasion song here).

Dracula has been available for download on Project Gutenberg for years.

What a crazy book- all the talk about how to properly kill him, and in the end they (iirc) just cut his head off with a butcher knife.

Not really an original idea. So many books were originally serials. Charles Dickens comes to mind as a great serial writer. Armistead Maupin is a more recent example.