If I were a second-hand book dealer with a stock of out-of-copyright titles
I would scan them all and sell them as e-books, then sell the original to
someone who does want a hard copy edition.
Why not double your money?
Tanya
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Mike Moore
> Sent: 08 July 2013 11:33
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Cwmorthin Book - possible reprint
>
> Cos some us run a business selling books particularly mining and
> Industrial
> History and appreciate support from the same community in order to
> recycle
> old title and of course new ones when they come out. There is also a large
> community out there who prefer to see, feel and read a printed volume and
> no doubt like Vinyl Records this will always remain the case.
>
> Thanks you for your support and when I'm out of business and you can't
> find
> that rare book in an e version tough!!
>
> For the time bring however I have a vast range of titles available via my
> website www.moorebooks.co.uk and for those who prefer traditional methods
> of payment rather than electronic means , I accept Cheques, cash and even
> beer tokens
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 8 July 2013 10:51, Tanya <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 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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> >> Mike Moore
> >> Sent: 08 July 2013 09:19
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> >> Subject: Cwmorthin Book - possible reprint
> >>
> >> 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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