06-25-2008, 10:18 PM
Clay;
Excellent questions! Those are the ones I answered for myself FIRST, before bothing to consider the copyright issues.
It's not the first chapter of the book, it's a chapter that can stand on it's own (an account of the 1930-something national trophy rifle matches by a shooter).
The newsletter is normally 8-12 pages. I would add a sheet of 11x17 to the newsletter for the duration of the series. I have been running "under budget" for the newsletter for 3 years since switching printers, so the Club's board has no problem adding a page for good content.
Mailing costs would remain the same until I pass 4 more sheets of 11x17.
I was planning on printing 4-6 pages per issue until the series is concluded. This would be in the August through January issues, which are historically harder to fill anyway, and so I would have the "extra" room.
The member whose idea it is would be doing the scanning, editing, and typeing... otherwise I would't bother (I write several match reports a month for the newsletter anway, and wouldn't want to saddle myself with that big a series).
I've thought these things through before arriving at the copyright hurdle :-)
[quote clay]my question---are you really going to excerpt the entire 40 pages of the 1st chapter for your newsletter? How many pages is your newsletter usually? Seems like a lot to be adding to a newsletter-type mailing. Not to mention the added print and postage costs. And who is going to either type or scan all that stuff into electronic format?
Seems like this guy would be better advised to choose a couple of the best paragraphs and use it as a teaser for folks to check out the book if they want more.
let us know what you do.
Excellent questions! Those are the ones I answered for myself FIRST, before bothing to consider the copyright issues.
It's not the first chapter of the book, it's a chapter that can stand on it's own (an account of the 1930-something national trophy rifle matches by a shooter).
The newsletter is normally 8-12 pages. I would add a sheet of 11x17 to the newsletter for the duration of the series. I have been running "under budget" for the newsletter for 3 years since switching printers, so the Club's board has no problem adding a page for good content.
Mailing costs would remain the same until I pass 4 more sheets of 11x17.
I was planning on printing 4-6 pages per issue until the series is concluded. This would be in the August through January issues, which are historically harder to fill anyway, and so I would have the "extra" room.
The member whose idea it is would be doing the scanning, editing, and typeing... otherwise I would't bother (I write several match reports a month for the newsletter anway, and wouldn't want to saddle myself with that big a series).
I've thought these things through before arriving at the copyright hurdle :-)
[quote clay]my question---are you really going to excerpt the entire 40 pages of the 1st chapter for your newsletter? How many pages is your newsletter usually? Seems like a lot to be adding to a newsletter-type mailing. Not to mention the added print and postage costs. And who is going to either type or scan all that stuff into electronic format?
Seems like this guy would be better advised to choose a couple of the best paragraphs and use it as a teaser for folks to check out the book if they want more.
let us know what you do.