Theos-Talk Archives (January 2011 Message tt00061)

A very good thought. Let us see what happens next.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joshua <joshuachad@zSx_ZTDf1XbAEEG5Mv4YSt14VJc13KmbYjIUWGRoQ92m_va4MPkALQwgqrbtx14v-h5YFRi4o5bs9tyRynI.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

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> I think that since Google has already set up an iniative to digitize some
> of
> the worlds libraries, perhaps this could be an option. Though I am not sure
> if the out of print books would be in libraries who have already taken part
> in Googles project I would assume that if a theosophical org volunteered
> their library to be digitized by Google it could take place. The link below
> is to the Google library project in case anyone is not familiar with the
> project.
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> http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html
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> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:34 AM, MKR <mkr777@EyQMPGjnlSvx1-jbatUyK4F0UMDCNrXGWVwliYtakn_c7IZgboHC7TGlcwwaj0ngYp7hnq1zjiM.yahoo.invalid <mkr777%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
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> > Out of print theosophical books - A simple solution
> >
> > There are many out of print theosophical books which are invaluable to
> the
> > student world-wide. The books are out of print because either it is not
> > viable to reprint it due to very low demand or there are some political
> or
> > public reasons not to. So far there was no solution with the traditional
> > approach to production of books. Digital world and Internet has opened up
> > immense opportunities and we should not miss it.
> >
> > Since every organization tries to make a buck from every activity, one
> > approach can be to make them available on e-readers such as Kindle. There
> > are two problems with this. Most theosophists are not rich. They do not
> own
> > Kindle. Even I do not own one. Secondly I was told that the commercial
> > outfits which will convert a book to Kindle format is expensive in that
> > they
> > want upto $1.00 a page. Even print on demand is going to involve
> pre-print
> > expense which needs to be recovered and both this cost and production
> cost
> > may keep the price of books high for most theosophists. Also, print on
> > demand is not available world wide.
> >
> > So doing nothing is not a good policy considering the low public
> awareness
> > of theosophy and TS. Some solution need to be found and found now.
> >
> > Here is my take. If the theosophical publishers allow their out of print
> > books to be scanned and converted to pdf files, then they can be made
> > available for download. If this is done, many volunteers around the world
> > with access to scanners would do the job at no cost to the publisher.
> This
> > needs out of the box thinking and it would work like a miracle and within
> a
> > short time most of the out of print theosophical books would be available
> > for everyone.
> >
> > All this needs is for the movers and shakers take off the business hat
> and
> > put on theosophical hat and think through the whole issue. If anyone has
> a
> > better idea, I would like to hear about it.
> >
> > MKR
> >
> > There is no religion higher than Truth.
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