There are a number of other concerns who also do this - I hesitated to mention this as all such concerns need to make a profit and rootsweb is anti such posts as I understand it. They are owned by the people who started them off and make a profit to pay staff, including the owners, to pay rent, mortgage, buy equipment and other capital assets and so on. The description not for profit is slightly misleading in my personal view. It is not a social enterprise. If you would like the name of another couple of smaller concerns with less overheads please get in touch privately. Be aware however that if the book is not one that is 'commercially' viable - in other words will sell to cover all costs as an absolute basic minimum and make a bit of profit then none of these people is likely to do it. I offered archive cd books around 20 of mine to copy for free and sell and they accepted only 9. They did give me a cd copy of each of those they scanned. They do not usually restore books donated by individuals - at least they restored none of mine and a couple are in quite a poor condition - Erdeswicks Survey of Staffordshire for example which they were quite excited to have. They had absolutely no interest to my surprise in The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire pub 1865 whihc is really quite rare - but one of the other concerns I mentioned did copy this - and also gave me a cd as a thank you. It is libraries and record offices whose books archive cd books sometimes restore - no doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong in this - but this is my personal experience. Ros ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liz Parkinson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] New Gresham Dictionary, 1917-ish >I suggest you contact Archive CD books, > > http://www.archivecdbooks.org/ > > They are a not for profit group who scan old books using specialised > equipment, and make them available at a low cost to people on CD. They > use > the income from the sales to pay for the restoration of the book concerned > and other books, and they buy books at auction which need restoring, pay > for > their restoration, scan them and make them available on CD. The very > first > book they did was called The Nottingham Date book, this book was in such > poor condition that Notts record office were going to stop letting people > read it. Rod Neep, who was well known to them, begged to be allowed to > borrow it for a weekend to scan it, and sell copies of it on CD to raise > the > money to restore it. That book was also indexed by a team of volunteers, > myself included. And from this it has grown into a worldwide project. > > As for Latin - I am currently doing A level, so I can read medieval > sources, > but I know I am a rarity > > Liz in Stockport > > >>From: Chris <[email protected]> >>Reply-To: [email protected] >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [OEL] New Gresham Dictionary, 1917-ish >>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:40:58 -0500 >> >>Hi Folks, >>I just signed up here to let you all know I have an original 1917-ish >>New Gresham Dictionary. It's a bit tired but mostly all there. >>I'm not trying to sell it, but asking of you what should I do to >>preserve its contents? >>I just figure it's kind of neat, full of all sorts of OE anachronysms >>and some Latin which no-one these days ever learns. >>It'd be a shame to lose this one, I think. >>What to do? >> >>Quid rides? >>Chris >> >> >> >>==================================== >>WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ >>ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Hotmail is evolving - check out the new Windows Live Mail > http://ideas.live.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ==================================== > WEB PAGE: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > ARCHIVES: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=OLD-ENGLISH > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

By not for profit I mean they plough profits into the enterprise - yes some staff are paid but that is true of not for profit charities as well. When I did my masters in Managing Not for Profit Enterprises that was how we defined not for profit. And I believe they sponsor some of the rootsweb lists. However, I am not here to argue. I dont know of the other enterprises, I only know of this one, which I have bought from on many occassions. I am sure there are other places. The important thing is that it isnt lost to historians - and if it does come out on CD, I would be interested in buying a copy Liz > >There are a number of other concerns who also do this - I hesitated to >mention this as all such concerns need to make a profit and rootsweb is >anti >such posts as I understand it. They are owned by the people who started >them off and make a profit to pay staff, including the owners, to pay rent, >mortgage, buy equipment and other capital assets and so on. The >description not for profit is slightly misleading in my personal view. >It >is not a social enterprise. _________________________________________________________________ Get Hotmail, News, Sport and Entertainment from MSN on your mobile. http://www.msn.txt4content.com/