When a friend Paul Duller wanted to convert my atlas into a web-site (1998 so a long time ago now)I decided to buy back the copyright (plus had to buy back all unsold copies of the book)from the publisher-indeed a couple of publishers along from the one that I signed my contract with- before we could legally go ahead and give the book away on the web. However to free oneself from a publisher especially a big one is very liberating!!! And the view from the moral high ground is splendid if a little resticted because all the other people standing here! cheers Rob Ixer