If there is any money to be made, you will quickly see who has the rights.
Finally found a copy of Rags to Rifleman
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If there is any money to be made, you will quickly see who has the rights.
Rain man knew some shit too...
And you are spot-on with your recollection of buddy's book. I was unsure I would make it to the middle of the book...but I is be glad I stuck it out.
And you are spot-on with your recollection of buddy's book. I was unsure I would make it to the middle of the book...but I is be glad I stuck it out.
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Hi John..I am not really surprised that a pool nut like you, would think Buddy's book was a 'great' literary achievement!..It is poorly written, and full of contradictions, and half truths, and as you said "unbelievable" stories!..It is barely better than Grady's book, which is/was, a complete disaster!
Thanks to Woody, some of the stories are mildly entertaining, but for the most part they are just re-hashed, boring recollections, of a somewhat seedy, wasted youth, not unlike what any other hard core pool hustler could assemble!..You are right about one thing though..Stick to Dyer or Tevis, for a better look at how the pool world really was..'back in the day'!
What exactly are you posting new from a 4 year old thread?
Low but consistent demand. A reprint isn't warranted, but eventually the supply dries up and with the steady demand still there, the price goes up. It's a common occurrence in the book world.
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It could now be done print on demand, but would need the copyright holder's approval / involvement. If anyone knows who has that, there's a very small amount of money to be made!
Correct someone own this intellectual property.
Don’t know if copyrights expire, and then it could be reproduced.
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Now we need lawyer to chime in.
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70 years after the author dies, so we'd probably never see it.Correct someone own this intellectual property.
Don’t know if copyrights expire, and then it could be reproduced.
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Now we need lawyer to chime in.
...and make it two volumes.I suppose it could be reissued in a legible font.
For the price it should come with a magnifying glass.I suppose it could be reissued in a legible font.
It’s a good book, I’ve read 80% of it. I paid $60 for my copy
Isn't Buddy Hall still alive? The internet says he is 77 and lives in Metropolis IL, but who knows if that's right. It's quite possible to self-publish e-books on Amazon; anybody can do it. But scanning all those pages would be a lot of work to set things up. If my information is not out of date (it might be), the author gets 70% of the proceeds if the ebook costs more than $4.99. Amazon gets the other other 30%. If the cost is less, then the percentages are flipped--the author gets 30% and Amazon gets 70%.
The trick might be to find someone who is willing to digitize the book, or else do a GoFundMe and collect money to pay someone to do it. I'll bet Buddy would be grateful if it brought in a little extra money, but I doubt he could do all the work to create the salable ebook.
Buddy is alive, he lost a bit of weight and is well.
I found a place to take the print and make it much bigger (which I saw as the main issue.)
However, I did not go through with it because I did not know the legal grounds along with it.
The book would pretty much be just pieces of paper when they are done, guess it could be rebound, but they have to remove the spine, scan, OCR, and then enlarge. The price was really nice.
As far as losing the book in the process, if you have a good, printable PDF the loss of the original is not a big deal.
The last time I looked, corrected OCR was about a dollar a page. That's not a lot for this kind of project unless you are only making one copy.
I think you would want to take the corrected text and reflow it onto more pages and maybe have two volumes.
I was quoted a very reasonable price at less than $1 a page. I think I started a thread about it.
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Depending on the number of pages in the book, you can easily OCR using a smartphone app now by taking photos.