The reprint agreement with Jan Jones was organised by Syd Humphries and it
would have
been he who included the Quanta copyright notice.
A lot of secrecy surrounded the agreement as JJ had expressed a wish that
the only
communication with her would be the annual payments and that on no
condition were we to disclose her address or telephone number to the
members.
As the agreement contained those details it was never made public.
The pricing arrangement of £8 was unavoidable.
The agreement was to pay JJ £5 for each copy sold and recover the cost of
printing.
As a non profit making organisation we could not sell the book at a
profit, neither
could we sell it non members.
In those days the turnover of Quanta was such that we would have been
liable for VAT
if we were a profit making organisation selling to the general public.
It was all 21 years ago so my memory is incomplete re the exact agreement
and what
happened to it.
It may have been in a pile of papers that I passed on to John Gilpin.
BTW. Syd was the only Quanta member who at different times held all three
executive positions of Treasurer, Secretary and Chairman.
Unfortunately Syd is one of the many Quanta friends I have lost over the
years.
John Taylor.
Thank you John. This sheds light on the Quanta background to this.
As John is away I'll ask him when he gets back to see what more information
we can find. Gives me a starting point to know where to look for the history
of all this, so we can see what we can come up with.
Dilwyn Jones
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