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From: "Hugh Wilding" <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] The Society Bookshop
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 01:22:19 -0000
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Christopher Richards wrote:


> I've suggested before and will suggest again that the society starts
talking
> to Rod Neep about putting some of the rare and out of copyright books in
the
> SOG library onto CD-Rom and then selling them as a joint venture.

Setting aside the question of preservation, there may be an argument that
for as long as the Society exists to provide its members with the services
of a "conventional" library (albeit highly specialised), there is little
point in selling the very "crown jewels" that attract membership to Goswell
Road in the first place. If I was an Executive Committee member, I would
certainly appreciate how a pay-to-view internet index service could attract
new members as well as providing an income stream (at least I hope this is
the case) but I would need an awful lot of convincing about the viability of
CD-Roms - at the very least, if reprints were so full of promise then why
hasn't the Society been doing this conventionally for years? Or perhaps it
has . . .

Hugh Wilding
Berkshire, England
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