Peter Burgess
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I have published a 1000 print run for Shropshire Mines Trust. It was a piece of cake.
andychapm said:we've just discovered castleton now!!!
AndyF said:Sadly, any PDF would get pirated and copied.
we'll be back!!Aye, I didn't think you would last long in Stoney,
That's not the idea as far as I can make out - people want to make money from the new guide... which I guess is fair enough given the amount of effort that they put in.SLP said:Is that not the whole idea? Information provided by cavers for cavers?
SLP said:AndyF said:Sadly, any PDF would get pirated and copied.
Is that not the whole idea? Information provided by cavers for cavers? The information within guides comes from hundreds of sources. The content can still be protected under copyright but do we need to protect it from ourselves?
Clive G said:And the reason that the information is available between two covers is that ONE SINGLE PERSON has spent hundreds or thousands of hours collating, refining, checking, amending, expanding, updating and presenting that information.
This isn't true - Google Books has many out of print titles you can't buy anywhere. There are many full preview books and many public-domain books too. They will be offering a service whereby an out of print book will be able to be purchased from them online in the future.Cave_Troll said:google work on the basis that they scan a book and only let you see a page thats relevant to your search. if you want to see the rest of the article / book you need to buy it from amazon.
Anyway, imo, not allowing an out of print book to be shown online, even though the information within it is over 15 years old is just petty and restrictive to the community that is crying out for it.
If a book is out of print, and has been for years then the authors aren't being denied anything since they would be getting no income from it anyway.caving_fox said:Is massively unfair to the authors though. Hence the lawsuits over Google books. Those living authors still deserve their compensation for the time they put in to creating those books, which Google is denying them.