> who are we to criticize Charles's
> business model?
Thanks -- but that's all right, everyone should feel free to
criticize my business model (especially if I stick my neck
out by posting about it here).
I can't say my approach is right, or the best possible
approach, or that anyone else's is wrong; all I can do is
exlain what I do (and don't do) and why.
To answer your question, we don't have any Marlowe in the
queue right now, but I'd love to do one at some point if we
turned up just the right title.
--Charles
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> 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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