Re: [bolger] Re: Philip C. Bolger used books

Garth,
I visited Phil this summer and I asked him if he ever considered the
"print on demand" approach to his out of print books. I'm not sure he fully
grasped the concept, but he didn't seem overly interested. He says they have
plans of doing kind of a compilation edition - merging a bunch of his old
books into one... but I bet we shouldn't hold our breaths on that one.
How involved is it to digitize a book? And what kind of percentage can
the author expect?
My vote is for you to approach him with some concrete details of the
workings of such a deal. I would think he'd rather be receiving the revenue
that is currently going to the used book dealers. And , as you say, it would
be a great service to Bolger lovers everywhere!
Go for it Garth...
david

Garth Battista wrote:

> The best place I know of to search for old Bolger books is
> www.bookfinder.com. It aggregates searches on numerous book sites,
> including ABE, Bibliofind, Amazon, Powell's, and about a dozen others
> -- then ranks the results by price. It's a really great resource. I
> just got "30-Odd Boats" for $14.95 from Powell's, via Bookfinder.com.
>
> (30-Odd Boats is amazing in the number of complete buildable designs
> it contains -- and most of them boats I'd never heard of -- Sparkler,
> Burgundy, etc. I'd like to know if these were proven to be less
> than ideal designs, and that's why they don't seem to be built as
> often -- or is it just that 30-Odd has been out of print? I'll try,
> in some future post, to list the boats it contains, along with the 1-
> line description from the back of the book, and give an indication of
> whether there are buildable plans included. Ditto for BWAOM -- though
> at least that's still in print and available.)
>
> I'm tempted, in my publisher incarnation, to ask PCB if he'd license
> publishing rights to "30-Odd Boats" and any of his other out-of-print
> books to my company, and we could digitize them and make them
> available via print-on-demand. I don't know if it would be very
> profitable, but so long as we didn't lose our shirts, I'd consider it
> the highest sort of public service.
>
> All best,
> Garth
>
>
> Bolger rules!!!
> - no cursing
> - stay on topic
> - use punctuation
> - add your comments at the TOP and SIGN your posts
> - add some content: send "thanks!" and "ditto!" posts off-list.

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