On Nov 18, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Julian Dyer wrote:

> A problem from the National Book Network of culling of the Vestal
> catalogue is withdrawal of the technical leaflets on reproducing
> pianos that were omitted from Reblitz on the grounds that it would
> be repetition of the information.  Now that the technical leaflets
> are separated from the book (and presumably will not be reprinted),
> it would be nice to see an expanded "Player Piano Servicing and
> Rebuilding" incorporating this information all in one place.
> One day, perhaps?

Another alternative for much of the leaflet style material that Vestal
Press used to print would be to talk to the National Book Network about
publishing a CD-ROM containing all of the player related leaflets.
This incurs much lower overhead, and can be produced as needed, rather
than cranking out a bunch of dead inventory by doing a print run.

Would there be any copyright problems associated with all of the
reprints Harvey Roehl did of service manuals and such if this CD-ROM
were to be done by someone other that the National Book Network?

Tom Dimock

 [ According to previous MMDigest articles, only the publishing rights
 [ of the major (big) books were acquired by National Book Network.
 [ The residual stock of Vestal Press technical reprints were sold to
 [ Player Piano Company (PPCo) of Wichita, Kansas.  It's not clear who
 [ holds the copyright of the reprints, but I don't believe it's N.B.N.
 [ -- Robbie