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6/6/2002 11:29:41 PM
Posted By: B.H. Liebes

Abebooks (Associated Book Exchange) http//:www.abebooks may provide titles on Medievall history of Sardinia by typing in those key words or names of authors and titles.

I doubt it
6/6/2002 6:22:12 PM
Posted By: Bruce Campbell

I did a study of this issue a few years back for a multi-volume magazine (antique) to be issued on CD-ROM.
Sadly, you may never get your wish. Why? Because it still takes dozens of hours to digitize a single book. So, even if I start a business to go to India and use cheap labor to scan the book (do I smell a 60 minutes piece in the works?), add some profit, it still comes out to several hundred dollars for that first copy.
Whenever you make anything, the first copy always costs the most, it takes the second, third, hundredth, thousandth sale to spread the costs to the point where someone is willing to pay for the product. For the book on Sardinia, you may in fact be the ONLY person on the planet willing to pay for the pleasure of reading it.
And where do I get the book in the first place? If you had it, you could read it. If someone else has it, what's his incentive to let me take it to India, etc.
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