3.266 e-texts from publishers? Israeli perfume flask (52)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Wed, 19 Jul 89 19:10:40 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 266. Wednesday, 19 Jul 1989.


(1) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 10:02:41 PLT (26 lines)
From: "Guy L. Pace" <PACE@WSUVM1>
Subject: Electronic Text

(2) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 19:02:32 EDT (6 lines)
From: bobh@phoenix (Robert Hollander)
Subject: Re: 3.259 Israeli perfume flask (40)

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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 10:02:41 PLT
From: "Guy L. Pace" <PACE@WSUVM1>
Subject: Electronic Text

Robert Hollander's note prompted this thought. Has anyone contacted the
publishers of texts about the possibility of getting a copy of the publisher's
electronic version of a specific text to clean up and modify for use in
scholarly research? I know most, if not all, publishers today use some
form of electronic entry of text for typesetting, page layout, whathaveyou.
Wouldn't it make more sense (cents? dollars?) to capture a copy of the
publisher's electronic version of a text, rather than duplicating the effort
to re-keyboard everything?

I would think that if a publisher grants permission for use of a text in
scholarly research, it would be just as simple to send the requestor a
disk or tape (for a nominal fee, of course) of the electronic version of
that text.

In most cases, a text entered for typesetting will have special markup
required by a particular typesetter. Those markups would likely need to
be stripped from the file, then text database markup would need to be added.
However, that process would be much less costly than re-keyboarding.

Would publishers be interested in this? Am I being naive? It's a thought,
though. Maybe someone with closer ties to the East Coast publishing world
could check this out?
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 19:02:32 EDT
From: bobh@phoenix (Robert Hollander)
Subject: Re: 3.259 Israeli perfume flask (40)

The name of the perfume, barely legible after all these years, is
Raising Cain.