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Originally Posted by Enchilada
More the pity is that many here probably didn't or have never seen one of them to compare them to current popular magazines on amateur astronomy.
It would be real great if those old articles were made available on-line - might also lift the game of the current crop, which IMO, is missing a crucial edge of significance to readers.
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Agreed. As to the 2nd part of your paragraph, the sad thing is it'd be a breach of copyright. This is how silly copyright is - something like this won't get digitised and anyone who does it privately is breaking the law. Some magazines understand it - atomic mpc has previously released CDs of entire previous issues (and for free). That's *really* appreciating your readers and not milking them like so many magazines do. My Southern sky magazines are all in storage, I'm trying to find the suckers, but it isn't easy amongst so many boxes that haven't been labelled as to what they contain.
Oh, another great book, Burnham's Celestial guides - discontinued I believe, no digital version, likely never to be. How silly is it to let information like this rot due to stupid copyright laws? The whole idea of copyrights initially was for the owner to make money for a period of time, I think that it was initially set to a very reasonable 25 years. After that it'd be released into the public domain, for the cultural benefit of society. These days, with copyrights now commonly extended to lifespan of owner + 75 years and increasingly having this time frame expended more and more, the original intent and design of copyright is meaningless.
Dave