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From: "Doug & Pat Frykberg" <>
Subject: Re: Out of Print Books
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:59:24 +1200


April, I think this sounds great. Except that the book I have weighs 2kgs
and therefore would be prohibitive postage. I have just had the book
photocopied. If you give me your snailmail address I could send a duplicate
page to you. If that quality is good enough quality I could get the whole
thing sent that way..
I also have several fairly rare book which I am sure are now out of print.
However they have been reprinted by various historical societies. What about
copyright? I do have the originals, not the facsimile reprints.
Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: APRIL BLAKELY <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, 1 July 2000 09:02 PM
Subject: Re: Out of Print Books


>Hi Pat and Others:
>
>I think we could collect books to digitize in several ways.
>
>1. People could mail me the books. I could digitize them and mail them
>back to the owners.
>
>2. People with good quality scanners and CD writers could mail me a
scanned
>copy for distribution.
>
>3. Books could be photocopied on a good quality copy machine and the
copies
>mailed to me. I think the results would be okay with this, but I would
have
>to test it. The original quality of the document, font, etc. would affect
>this and illustrations would be lost.
>
>I was thinking that for every book accepted for distribution, the owner
>could receive one other CD book for free. This would offset the owners
>expenses in mailing me books or copies. I will pay the return postage on
>books that need to be shipped back to the owner and recoup those expenses
>from sales.
>
>I'll also make a wish list form for people to submit requests. If we have
>enough requests for a book, I can purchase it for distribution. This would
>be great with some of the really expensive ones. I'll also reinvest
profits
>from sales toward purchasing other books for distribution.
>
>What do you think? Any other suggestions? I think this web site has a lot
>of potential.
>
>April
>
>
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