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[edit] Found in 1989: really?

This page says: "In truth the whereabouts of the manuscript were known for many years, the story of the discovery was created as a marketing ploy."

Now, the current article offers no proof that it was REALLY found in 1989, and that page offers no proof that the discovery was just a marketing ploy. How should the article be modified?

Devil Master 13:48, 02 Sep 2005 (MET)

I've just greatly expanded this article, which was, in truth, a stub. To answer the charge above, I did some research on this book on Google, and found not one critic questioning it. The link provided above seems to be an unsubstantiated opinion, though many critics did say the book was "hyped" far beyond its true value, even though it was an important find. I also highly doubt a publisher would "sit" on an unpublished Jules Verne. Something like that is a guaranteed money-maker, and in fact was. Nhprman 21:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

I wonder also,some predictions in this book are too "accurate" to be true.May some ghost writer imitate Verne to conceive this one.Ksyrie 23:42, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

A biography on Jules Verne on The History Channel included quite a bit of info about this book. It made reference to a letter from Verne's publisher at the time citing reasons why they didn't want to go ahead with the publication. I'll make some notes the next time it is shown and see if I can't expand upon what is already in the article. The impression I got from the bio was that the book was genuinely written by Verne as there seemed to be supporting period-evidence of the books existence.

Matthew king 15:54, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Public Domain?

Shouldn't this book be in the public domain like other works of Verne are? I couldn't find it on any online Verne library. 193.171.121.30 18:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

The book was written in the 19th century, but it wasnt published until very recently, thus its copyright will still hold for the nexy century or so. 128.208.40.60 05:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'Worldwide communication network'

I doubt that Verne thought of the internet as such, when he talked about a 'Worldwide communication network', considering that the television had not yet been invented. I think it's more likely that Verne would have been thinking of some sort of worldwide telegraph network, or if he was being extra fanciful, perhaps some sort of worldwide gramophone network, whereby people could listen to other people's voices, anywhere in the world.