Jeff wrote:
"While your intentions seem to be noble, I think you're
overlooking some points and glossing over others. To turn a
profit, any profit, after only a year or so in a niche market
such as this is fantastic. And in order to do this you've
admitted that you have had to select titles you think will
sell and with which you have exclusivity by contract. That
business model seems to automatically exclude works in the
public domain, which is unfortunate since there are a lot of
works in the public domain that deserve reprinting."
Yes, I would love to read Chaze's book, and I would buy a
Hard Case Crime edition of it (and it's highly doubtful that
I'll buy a POD of it, since I'm enough of a collector geek
that I want the artifact in my hands). However, who are we to
criticize Charles's business model? Even if Charles chooses
to pass on public domain material, I can't imagine him
running out of reprint material any time soon.
Sure, there are plenty of books I'd like to see reprinted
that he probably won't (any Dan Marlowe on the horizon?), but
I'm very happy to read the ones he has. Sure, I've got some
quibbles (Night Walker is the least of the Hamiltons I've
read, for instance), but they're minor. Thank you Charles
(and your partners) for introducing me to a lot of great old
(and new) books I might not otherwise have been able to
read.
Mark
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