[SCC_Active_Members] the Quirks in Reviving CS books

[Len Shustek]

At 10:42 AM 3/9/2006, Edward Feigenbaum wrote:
>p.s. another issue: what about setting up a CHM Press, similar to
>what the AAAI did. Then people can donate the
>copyrights to "classics" to the CHM and the CHM can choose to
>republish (sooner or later). I am guessing that MIT Press
>or Stanford Press would be willing to enter into a publishing
>partnership as MIT Press did with the AAAI.
>
>We would need an editor of the CHM imprint.  A volunteer could easily
>do the job.

Interesting idea.  The Babbage Institute used to do that; from 1984 
to 1992 they republished 16 books that were also distributed by MIT 
Press.  As of now, 8 of those 16 reprint titles are themselves out of print.
-- Len