The usual apologies for cross-posting, and for repeating what I said at the CCS AGM:
The stocks of the 2nd (2005) edition of my 'Ordnance Survey maps: a concise guide for historians' are running down, and I am giving thought to whether the replacement is to be a conventional hard-copy book, or only available via the CCS website. Whichever version was decided on, there would be modest addition and updating of material, particularly the bibliography.
I would be extremely glad to hear from users and potential users, (a) whether they would be likely to find a web or a hard-copy version more convenient, and (b) if it was only available in one form or the other, whether they would feel seriously disadvantaged.
To inform a decision: at present printers' prices a hard-copy third edition, printed-paper-case as for the 2nd edition, might be expected to sell for about £20. A web version would be 'free at point of use', but would probably cost several poiunds in paper and (particularly) ink to print out. A web version would presumably enable some sort of word-search facility, but it would of necessity involve internet access and the associated hardware.
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Thank you,
Richard Oliver
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