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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