Jonathan,
You are absolutely correct...the marketing of CD versions of back issues
would kill the market for paper reprints. While they are on CD-ROM, you
could buy good-quality, acid-free paper and print your own copy from the CD
and put it in a binder. Once the issues are digitized, they are easily
upgraded to newer technology. How many computers still have the tiny 1.4
meg floppy drives? Some manufacturers have stopped using them, but it will
be a while before they are gone completely.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: jonathanharris@e... [mailto:jonathanharris@e...]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:17 PM
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BRHSlist] CD-ROM question
I voted for the CD option, but I did so with some misgiving, and I
certainly can understand Rich's hesitancy. Burning everything onto CDs
might undercut the market for traditional reprints, and I'm not sure
whether I'd prefer to have a copy on paper or in digital format (that's not
a euphemism; I mean it literally: I'm not sure. No doubt others on the list
have very strong preferences one way or the other). On the other hand,
burning CDs has to be a lot cheaper than conventional reprinting and once
archived in digital format they need never go out of print -- though it
might be necessary to re-save or even re-scan them as software is updated.
So the CD strategy might help keep some of the less popular Bulletins
accessible. And it might help the Society conserve scarce resrouces.
Clearly a lot for the board to consider.
Jonathan
From: rgortowski@a...
Date: Tue Feb 12, 2002 6:15 pm
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Bulletin Question
In a message dated
2/12/02 3:38:47 AM
Central Standard Time,
peke@b... writes:
> Not knowing the physical state of the archive. Is it possible to scan
> the back copies and then publish (sell) the issue on CD-ROM.
>
> Unless you are very lucky it would probably mean that you would have to
> store each page as an image rather than
OCRing the text.
>
> However, these days, we can all view and print an image, so no problems
> at our end. The CD's could be "printed" on demand and there wouldn't be
> a storage problem and the archival problem is also solved..
This is an interesting thought, but it is one that raises many questions as
well. This is a topic that we will be looking at in the near future.
Something of this magnitude needs to be carefully considered.
Rich Gortowski
President - BRHS
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