Review: Claim Jumping Book
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
First, this is NOT every version of Cinderella of which there are over 1,000 versions of the tale in the world. Secondly, this book is selling what has been offered for free on the web by two fairy tale websites for over 16 years.Most--if not all--of the tales are offered for free on my own site, SurLaLune Fairy Tales and D. L. Ashliman's site, as alternative versions of Cinderella. They are out of copyright and free game, but this book essentially took all of the work of gathering and introducing from two well-known and respected sites and packaged it here--rather poorly--for personal profit. I call foul!There are other more comprehensive and helpful compilations available that don't try to profit off the hard work of authorities who have shared these tales for free to all readers on the web for years and years. Some of the tales listed here do not have out of copyright English translations available, so I'm not sure where they got those either. I had to do my own translation of Yeh-hsien, for example, to include it in my own compilation. Free doesn't mean out of copyright. Published on the web doesn't mean free either. This is not a properly vetted and edited collection. And why pay for it when it is free on the web anyway?