Tanya, Mike
I am a publishing professional and am always delighted to see books come
back into print (my own project is the Cambridge Library Collection, to
which I am gradually adding more mining-related material; we publish in
paperback and on-line).
So far as the Cwmorthin book goes, you first need to check the copyright
situation. I am not a lawyer, but if you message me directly I can give
you a few rules of thumb, in my private capacity. Of course you may have
done all this already.
There are one or two outfits operating who, for a modest set-up fee, will
produce print on demand single copies of a book to order (thus eliminating
guess work about the print run), and also arrange for its e-publication.
I hope you can find the plates - locating missing plates is how I spend
quite a lot of my time, as there is nothing more irritating for a customer
than to buy a reprint and find the maps and pictures are missing. Some
reprint houses are not very scrupulous about completeness.
Regards
Kate
From: Tanya <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: 08/07/2013 11:10
Subject: Re: Cwmorthin Book - possible reprint
Sent by: mining-history <[log in to unmask]>
Why go old-school? Why not an e-book?
Ebooks never go out of print and they cost nothing to reproduce. They can
also be automatically updated/corrected. They go on making money or the
publisher/author years after the tree-masher print run is exhausted.
As someone who has spent a lot of time searching for OP books to research
projects I wish to urge all publishers to move to e-publishing, for their
current output and their back catalogue.
Tanya
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> Subject: Cwmorthin Book - possible reprint
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> I'm in the process of trying to get a reprint of this book - its been
> out of print for sometime unfortunately the original plates have gone
> missing, I'm trying to get a feel for number of copies to get printed
> is anyone on here interested?
>
> Mike
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