Charles Green Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 So, I find myself in a bit of a quandary. As some of you know, a few years ago, I wrote two monographs for Stormbringer, called Gods of Chaos and Gods of Law respectively. Sine Chaosium no longer possesses the license for the line, these books are out of print, and will never see publication gain. However, since I wrote the material, I still own it, even though I don't have a license to print them for money. For Gods of Chaos, this has been gotten around by making a PDF of the book available online. I'd like to do the same thing for Gods of Law. The problem is that Marcus Bone has the PDF he made doing the layout, and I haven't been able to get in touch with him in months. (Marcus, if you're reading this, contact me.) The ideal solution would be to get the PDF from him, and have it hosted somewhere. Since I can't do that, if I'm going to make Gods of Law available again, I need to do something myself. I have a single bound copy of the manuscript. Sadly, I lost the .doc files in a hard drive crash, so I can't simply post them. If I take my bound copy to someplace like Kinkos and ask for a scan and re-binding, am I going to get turned away at the door, even though I'm the author and have permission to post it? Are there other options here that I'm not considering? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rust Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 I do not know how it is handled in your country, but over here you would only have to prove that you are the author, and the company would be happy to get the job. Quote "Mind like parachute, function only when open." (Charlie Chan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickMiddleton Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Charles, I have TWO copies of Gods of law - one is a purely black & white, tape bound copy based on what appears to have been a final proof copy (there are hand written annotations reproduced on some pages). it was one of a set in a "mega-order" by several regulars at the Tavern - when we told Chaosium about it they sent us all replacement copies or the corrected print run - which was also one of the first colour cover and perfect bound monographs... If we can't track Marcus down I'll slice up my black and white copy, scan it and run it through Acrobat 9 and send you the file if you want. Cheers, Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Green Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 Thanks for the offer, Nick, but I've managed to get in touch with Marcus, and he has provided me the Word file and illustrations for the book. It looks like the PDF is gone, but he plans to re-lay it out and put it up in a couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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