Re: [AGA-mcm] The Optimum Aquarium

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

I'd say get a ballpark estimate on printing costs beffore
even approaching Duplaworld. We couldn't discuss any
financial arrangement with them without some idea of the
gross costs of printing.

sh

--- Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@rightstuffwebsites.com> wrote:

> Erik Olson wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Cheryl Rogers wrote:
> > 
> >> Welllllll..... they probably wouldn't sell us the
> rights under those 
> >> conditions.
> >>
> >> Besides, how hard do we want to work on this?
> >>
> >> Did you know that I have never read it?
> > 
> > 
> > I'd be happy to lend you my copy.  
> 
> Thanks, that's nice of you.
> 
> You know how Amano's work sometimes
> > has a tendency to become a commercial for ADA products?
>  The whole 
> > freaking book is that way with The Optimum Aquarium.
> 
> Yeah, I figured. But I still see it being recommended as
> a good source 
> of basic information. Folks say you can sometimes find it
> on ebay. I 
> wondered whether there woud be a market for a reprint.
> And whether being 
> the only English source for this book could vaguely be
> considered a 
> service to the hobby.
> 
> > 
> > The other thing I remember is that the English
> Translation (Albert 
> > Thiel) is supposedly not very good compared to the
> original German.
> 
> I guess we could have it re-translated. Was the original
> translator 
> British or American? If British, then we could get away
> with "First 
> American translation!" or whatever. But now we're getting
> spendy.
> 
> > 
> > Cheryl, in what manner were you thinking of publishing
> it?  I don't know 
> > how it could be done in a way that would break even for
> a book that most 
> > would find useful mostly for historical reasons...
> unless we could scan 
> > it and sell the text as an EBook.  Is there a way to
> print low-run books 
> > at reasonable prices?
> 
> Depends on what you call reasonable. But yes, I've seen
> it done. There 
> are "print-on-demand" publishers out there.
> 
> I'm not thinking of this as AGA's Big Money-Maker for
> 2006. But if we 
> could project a "break-even" in five years, I'd say it's
> worth it.
> 
> Cheryl
> who was mostly thinking out loud and who should really
> shut up and go 
> back to TAG before she finds herself volunteered to
> research this.
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