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David Nicholson

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Re: What happened to these?
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2008, 09:58:09 AM »
Couldn't SRGC publish it, doing so would fit in well with the aims and objectives? Could be worth exploring further.
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Re: What happened to these?
« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2008, 04:07:44 PM »
David, book publishing is a special skill and not a project to be undertaken lightly. Publishing and promoting a mongraph like this would take a lot of time and effort for a small company. The SRGC does have one person capable of undertaking the task but I don't think that she is in the least bit interested. To be frankly honest, if a company like Timber Press are not interested, then the probability is that the book is not very saleable.
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Re: What happened to these?
« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2008, 05:27:34 PM »
Couldn't SRGC publish it, doing so would fit in well with the aims and objectives? Could be worth exploring further.

OK 'twas just a thought.
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Re: What happened to these?
« Reply #18 on: February 16, 2008, 09:29:55 PM »
I'm afraid David Shaw is right. Times have changed since 1982 & even with its beautiful colour plates, I doubt that BM's monograph would find a publisher today. Twenty or thirty years ago publishers could rely on substantial sales to institutional libraries of monographs but these days  such libraries don't have the funds for unnecessary or  "luxury" purchases.  Glossy picturebooks which sell to the general public are what publishers want now, not scholarly monographs. 
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Re: What happened to these?
« Reply #19 on: February 16, 2008, 09:34:56 PM »
Thats not so bad - I can contribute a bit to a glossy picture-book - just need to piggy-back the important stuff in from Germany without the publishers noticing.  A bit like The Great Escape - only hopefully the success rate will be higher :-\

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Re: What happened to these?
« Reply #20 on: February 16, 2008, 10:23:31 PM »
There is always the option of a CD/DVD book
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Re: What happened to these?
« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2008, 10:53:48 AM »
Thats not so bad - I can contribute a bit to a glossy picture-book - just need to piggy-back the important stuff in from Germany without the publishers noticing.  A bit like The Great Escape - only hopefully the success rate will be higher :-\

Go for it Tony.
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