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"Al Smith" wrote in message ... I'm not sure if this is the correct broup to post this, but how would you go about getting a book reprinted. I have several rare antique books that some of my friends would like copies of. I would need about 100-500 copies of each. You've got more friends than I do. Would I have to scan/OCR them, photocopy, or take digital pictures of the pages? If they are, as you say rare antique books, you will probably want a photographic facsimile of each page, complete with worm holes, water stains and fly specks. On the other hand, if you merely wish to reproduce the text in a nice, new binding, scanning and optical character recognition would be the way to go. Is there a POD company that does large folio sized books? Don't know. Is there any copyright issues to deal with if you take an ebook of a book that is in the public domain and get a couple hundred printed, or do you have to get a printed copy and do the work yourself? No copyright issues. It doesn't matter how much work some other person has put into scanning an e-book -- if that book is in the public domain, that person has no control over the use of the text, and you can take the e-book and do whatever you want with the text it contains. You may not be able to merely redistribute the e-book itself, if the formatting used is extensive and unique. The look of a book can be copyrighted, along with any additional materials such as an index, introduction, added illustrations, and so on. The text itself is as much yours as it is the guy's who lifted it from somebody else's efforts. Great, just what I wanted to know. There are ebooks, but no hardcover copies of some of the books I want to get printed. The folio volumes will probably have to be done photographically for better effect (ornate headings and text formatting) |
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John Pelan wrote:
I do find it hard to believe that any book worth doing 100 copies of isn't worth doing 300-500, and once you hit that number, conventional printing is going to be more cost-effective. POD remains the easy answer for people whose entire concept of marketing is putting up a website and hoping that customers stumble across it. Well, it is worth pointing out that Chaosium had a number of its early Cthulhu Cycle Books printed by Lightning Source, which is a major POD printing service started by Ingram, a major book distributor. I can only verify that five of the first nine books were printed using Lightning Source, but most likely the other four were as well. I do not dispute the truth of your last statement, but apparently Chaosium is an example of the kind of professional publishing firm that would use POD services. Kevin L. O'Brien |
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