[SCC_Active_Members] the Quirks in Reviving CS books

[Tim O'Reilly]

I like this idea.  Given the current state of the book markets, you'd  
be best doing this with a Print on Demand vendor like Qoop, and  
selling on Amazon and direct from the museum.  You won't get them  
into regular bookstores.  If you are interested, I can connect you  
with the right people.


On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Len Shustek wrote:

> 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
>
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