Hi Joao,
Yea, I am sure that it must be in two formats. I like books printed, but that surely adds up and is more costly.
There are too many books I have in storage, because we simply don't have room in the house and my ready to grab books on the shelf are limited to four linear feet set aside by my wife (grudgingly...). So I can imagine an eBook being more practical in many ways.
So far, my only experience in digital books is from a couple of chapters saved as PDF files from the Terceira volumes that they never sent me, thanks to someone in Brasil. I like the copy/paste feature for making notes. And I suppose it has the search feature, but didn't try it.
What I hate to imagine is selling fewer because they are so easily shared in digital form.
There are probably some strategies to overcome that. Maybe using the hard bound vs soft bound release model, where the hard bound is first.
But all this can change before I am ready to publish. I don't think I would start sooner than maybe 20 years from now. I would be about 75 by then (54 now). Then I would hope over the following decade to complete this lifetime goal of mine.
In the meantime, I continue to offer my services as a professional genealogist.
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Putting our research on Ancestry
From: João_Ventura <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, December 20, 2013 1:30 am
To: [email protected]
Doug,--Please make sure that you create an ebook variant of those books.. The 'Casais das Flores e Corvo' is so much more useful in ebook format, that I actually stopped using the paper version. There are print-on-demand publishers that will list your book in Amazon, iTunes and Google Play store as an ebook, and also print and post a paper book to those who feel better with a dead tree in their hands.I draw a line between reference books (technical or genealogy trees) and story books (fiction, science or biography). The former are way better when I can Ctrl+F and search what I need. The latter usually deserve the tree sacrifice.João C. Venturahttp://tombo.pt
On Friday, December 20, 2013 1:14:31 AM UTC+1, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote:Thanks for your thoughts on this, Joao.It will be something I must deal with in the future as I plan to start publishing.I was just thinking how massive a task it would be to get in writing the permission for each and every living person to be included. There are many people who write me to make sure their families are included in my future Pico and Terceira books.Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Putting our research on Ancestry
From: João_Ventura <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, December 19, 2013 4:30 pm
To: [email protected]
Hi Doug,Oh yes, the 10-book Genealogias da Ilha Terceira. I don't have that book, as my wife's ancestors don't come from Terceira. I do have the 4-book Genealogias das Quatro Ilhas where indeed a lot of living people are listed. Some were still being breast fed when it was published.I do think that the science clause,applies, but it's slightly different. In Portugal (and in the rest of the world), they're still struggling on the difference between paper and digital. The former is free speech, and you can't censor that without good reason. The tables turn in the case of data and databases. On the data front, there's this privacy comission I mentioned (CNPD) that regulates the distribution of any private data. In the end it's all the same, but the line can easily grow thin in the case of ebooks (which is what the 10vol GdIT and 4vol Gd4I should have been, instead of being so massive and expensive).As an aside, I do firmly believe that these books have heavy contributions by people, which simply contribute their whole GEDCOM without realizing their young cousins will make it onto a printed book. Unfortunately, it also leads to some simple errors which shouldn't be committed by genealogists of such renown. I've got a case of a woman (ancestor to my wife and my kids) being a mother at 76yrs back in the 1700s.João C. Ventura
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