I hope I'm not just repeating what others have said. I feel that books
are a precious resource and need to be protected. Paper books are great
but expensive to produce and keep in stock. Ebooks in whatever form are
excellent as well.
May I suggest that authors keep a master print copy of their books from
which they can photocopy extra copies as requested. The buyer should pay
for the photocopying and binding (say spiral type) and of course mailing
costs. Most copy places can do this with a minimum of fuss.
You should also store your original copies as electronic files such as
pdfs and I agree with Brenda store it on a number of computers or
servers (floppies, CD's and USB all have their problems). During the 94
Sydney bushfires, the fire came to within a kilometer of my home and my
Masters thesis was almost complete. I stored copies not only on my
computer at home and the university server (which was also in the path
of the fire) but on a server in the UK by sending am email to myself at
that address (it pays to be a member of the IOP). And other copies sent
as email attachments to children and friends. I think I had about 5 back
up copies. With cloud computing making its mark soon you will be able to
store your books on your cloud site which should be protected from
tsunami, earthquake, flood and fires.
Anna in a sunny Sydney
On 14/09/11 8:00 AM, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Saving info from floppy to a current form of storage is very necessary if the
data is important, but a memory stick isn't the most reliable way - a hard
drive or CD/DVD is better, and/or upload to a remote server somewhere.
Brenda
On 13 Sep 2011, at 17:12, bev walker wrote:
I think it would be timely to make your book available again either as
BoD or eBook, pdf. For the latter you could go with colour.
The information on the floppies should be stored to current media
storage (e.g. a memory stick) if possible. Maybe you've done that
already.
Brenda in Allhallows
www.brendapaternoster.co.uk
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