On 21/06/2014 00:52, Timothy Swenson wrote:
John,
I'm sure I've mentioned before, but I have already OCR'ed the book. I
have Chapters 1-9 in Doc format. Chapters 10-11 are still in .txt
format. What I did not do is scan the images/diagrams. They will
need to be scanned and then inserted into the document. I'm willing
to pass on what I have done to someone else to continue the work, or
jointly work on the project.
The real next step is to get permission from Jan Jones to make to book
releasable under a Creative Commons license. Since Quanta had a past
agreement with Jan, can Quanta make the first approach?
Tim Swenson
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My understanding from one of the people who negotiated with Jan Jones on
behalf of Quanta was that the negotiation was quite difficult.
Permission for the reprints was only obtained subject to strict
conditions, one of which was that under no circumstances were her
contact details to be disclosed.
Quanta kept to these conditions and also paid any royalties. For that
reason I think Quanta is the best contact body.
Also be careful with OCR-ing. You will need to be able to produce a
searchable pdf or similar,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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