[PRCo] Re: PRC book

[Schneider Fred]

Seems to me you once tried to volunteer me to edit someone else's  
Pittsburgh book and he didn't feel he needed an editor.....


On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> I don't recall at this point who started this thread of "someone  
> owes us a
> book," but it's time to say again that all the facts haven't been  
> gathered
> for a legitimate history.  They are coming out a bit at a time,  
> however.
> And the fact still remains that the railfans will want a different  
> history
> than the academic types will, so both have to be included.
>
> While the offers of assistance are genuine and welcome, no one seems
> (actually very few seem) to understand the magnitude of a major book
> project.  It has to be led by people who have the historic  
> knowledge and can
> correctly interpret it, and who have layout and computer skills.   
> The second
> we have.  It's the first that are in short supply.  And then  
> funding would
> have to be provided.  It's not automatic, and if you want to make  
> any money,
> you don't let a regular publisher near it.
>
> Lest someone else "volunteer" me for this, let me go on record that  
> any book
> I undertake will be on West Penn Railways.  And let me remind  
> everyone that
> I am looking for ways to REDUCE involvement at the trolley farm, not
> increase it.  I have a number of personal projects that sorely need  
> to be
> done, and a thousand hours a year at PTM interferes with them big  
> time.  I
> am not getting younger.
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of  
> Derrick
> Brashear
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:52 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC book
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Dennis Fred  
> Cramer<trombone at windstream.net>
> wrote:
>> The only viable way to do this book and recoup any money would be to
>> do it as a PDF on DVD.  Then encrypt it somehow so it cannot be  
>> copied
>> disc to disc.  If the owner wanted to print it, that written
>> permission would be given in the bill of sale so places like Staples
>> would not refuse if one wanted a better than average print job.
>
> There's always someone like me who can copy it regardless, and  
> while I'm
> not, ...
>
>> The PRH&TS has been republishing past issues of The Keystone for
>> several years in this format and it certainly beats the high cost of
>> printing for such a narrow sales window.
>
> It does. I've talked with them about the risks of digital  
> distribution and
> offered some advice. Note that those CDs/DVDs do not have  
> protection against
> copying.
>
>> Who is willing to help start gathering data, writing route
>> descriptions, and all of the other minutiae some of you seem to  
>> want in a
> railfan book?
>>
>> I would be willing to head the organization and layout (I do have  
>> some
>> experience in this) and then sell it for $100.00 each with the profit
>> all going to the Publications/Archives department of PTM.
>
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> Derrick
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