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Originally Posted by Enchilada
Dave,
This, of course, also assumes that the publishers would be against digitising their material's copyright. Of course, the might say yes if they were approached in a formal and nice way.
Might be worthwhile forwarding a nice letter or two to them - say making the point on distribution "educational" or "useful knowledge" grounds. It would also make a nice basis for a good Australian Astronomy Reader. (Another would be to "buy the rights.")  Note: Of course, I am not here encouraging anyone to copy these - just commenting on its comparative value as a quality magazine against the current crop we can buy today. |
It'd be really cool to have those earlier magazines digitised and a lots of other stuff. I can see why so few do it - it's easier for people to pirate digital items than paper based items. Imagine Burnham's celestial guide in a large format 1 volume - wouldn't that be awesome? Imagine a digital version of it, again, you could have it on your laptop when you're observing. All of this limited by close minded and lazy publishers.
As to S&S's demise, who knows. It is disappointing (and technically illegal under the trade practices act) for them to not honour subscriptions. I'm not suggesting anyone formally complain btw, but in the end, they are a business, they have paying customers who have paid for a product that they are not receiving. Worse, the communication between the business and the paying public is non existant. This is unforgiveable. As someone else said earlier on in the thread, the trust is now broken, and even if they came back, they wouldn't buy the magazine.
Dave