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| CONTENTS |
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| 1. Registration of your Golden Gale book. |
| 2. How to order additional books. |
| 3. List of books now available in the Golden Gale series. |
| 4. How to obtain any book of your choice in this format. |
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1. Registration of your Golden Gale Book:
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In accordance with the "shareware" system, you should register this
book if you want to retain it for more than one month.
In return for the payment of a small registration fee, you will
receive the following:
1) The latest version on a disk (3 1/2 inch or 5 1/4 inch).
2) Two further books of your choice.
3) On request, separate speaking versions of these three books,
which can be used with the Covox "Speech Thing" equipment.
These speaking versions will be supplied to you free of charge.
4) Full documentation, both on disk and in printed form, of how
to use the program.
5) A list of all available books; sent to you quarterly (but
discontinued after one year if you make no further orders).
6) Information about improved versions of existing books as they
become available. Features which will be available shortly
include illustrations, improved speech for various sound cards,
improved search facilities, Adobe Type 1 proportionally-spaced
fonts, extended reader's notes, and so on.
7) Eligibility to upgrade to subsequent versions at a reduced price.
To print out the registration form, turn on your printer, insert
a sheet of paper, and at the DOS prompt type:
COPY GGB001.REG PRN
and then strike the Enter or Return key. The form contains 58 lines,
so it should fit on one sheet of paper.
Then fill it in and send it, together with your cheque, draft, or
money order (thank you very much!), to one of the two addresses
given on the form.
2. How to Order Additional Books:
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You are welcome to order further books from our lists at any
time. Just drop us a line with your requirements. Please use the
prices stated on the line "further books" on the registration
form in the file GGB001.REG
3. List of Books now Available in the Golden Gale Series:
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1) "The Picture of Dorian Gray", by Oscar Wilde. 1891
Notorious book about a fine-featured young man and his conscience.
2) "A Comedy of Masks", by Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore. 1893
Dowson is better known for his poetry; nevertheless this
book is a classic with a strong fin de siècle atmosphere.
3) "Mike Fletcher", by George Moore. 1889
A young man spends much of his life pursuing the female sex.
Read what happens to him!
4) "A Millionaire of Yesterday", by Edward Phillips Oppenheim. 1900
Adventure in darkest Africa, and a lad's devotion.
5) "Jeremy at Crale", by Hugh Walpole. 1927
School story for grown-ups. Rather a lot of football, but
nonetheless many good things.
6) "Gods, and their Makers", by Laurence Housman. 1897
A boy and a girl in savage lands. Short poetical fantasy,
unusual, and much more rewarding than it appears to be at
first sight.
7) "Scientific Fact and Metaphysical Reality", by Robert
Brandon Arnold. 1904
The only book he published. It deals with the relationship
between philosophy and the science of that era. There is a lot
about the ether, for example, which is not often discussed
nowadays. "Motor-car orgies" come into it, as well.
8) "The Book-Bills of Narcissus", by Richard le Gallienne. 1895
A short book containing densely-woven reflections on the spiritual
progress of a young poet.
9) "The Upton Letters", by Arthur Christopher Benson. 1905
A school-teacher's letters to his old friend. Very good on
English life and country-side; evokes its period admirably.
Many exceptionally wise observations. Benson wrote the words
of "Land of Hope and Glory"; there is a "Land of Hope" in
this book too.
10) "What IS Thought?", by James Hutchison Stirling. 1900
Discusses German Idealism in an exuberent and amusing Scottish
style. Admirable on Kant: ("I do not take Immanuel to have
believed in miracle, in inspiration, or even in ecstasy--poor
man! he was never married.") Much that is penetrating and
illuminating about Schelling, but he is wrong-headed, I think,
about the relative achievements of Schelling and Hegel. In
remarks like "It is certain relations that are alone in question,
and alone the truth" he is much closer to the truth than most
writers.
11) "David Blaize", by Edward Frederic Benson. 1916
Another school story for grown-ups; a lot is either barely
stated, or goes on under the surface.
4. How to Obtain any Book of Your Choice in this Format:
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You may have any book of your choice turned into computerized
form. This applies, in principle, to any printed book, whether
rare or common, and to your own typed manuscripts, electronic
texts, and so on.
There are a number of options, depending on four main
factors:
a) whether the text already exists in electronic form or
has to be scanned in,
b) whether we are permitted to keep the copyright on the
computerized book, or you want to retain it for your
own use,
c) the length of the book,
d) if the book has to be scanned in, the quality of type
in the original text. This can be measured in terms of
the number of manual corrections which have to be made
to each scanned page.
Thus our current prices (in US dollars) can be expressed in
terms of those four factors:
a) text already in electronic form, copyright to be retained by
us:
up to 80,000 words ..................... $50
each additional 10,000 words ........... $7
b) text already in electronic form, copyright to be retained by
you:
up to 80,000 words .................... $110
each additional 10,000 words .......... $15
c) text has to be scanned in, copyright to be retained by us:
c1) good quality original (fast scan, less than 5 manual
corrections per page):
up to 60,000 words .................. $90
each additional 10,000 words ........ $10
c2) medium quality original (slower scan, 5 to 20 manual
corrections per page):
up to 60,000 words ................. $120
each additional 10,000 words ........ $15
c3) poor quality original (slow scan, more than 20 manual
corrections per page):
up to 60,000 words ................. $150
each additional 10,000 words ........ $20
d) text has to be scanned in, copyright to be retained by you:
d1) good quality original (fast scan, less than 5 manual
corrections per page):
up to 60,000 words ................. $200
each additional 10,000 words ........ $25
d2) medium quality original (slower scan, 5 to 20 manual
corrections per page):
up to 60,000 words ................. $250
each additional 10,000 words ........ $40
d3) poor quality original (slow scan, more than 20 manual
corrections per page):
up to 60,000 words ................. $300
each additional 10,000 words ........ $70
Note that illustrations are not YET handled (but will be soon), nor
are large quantities of non-standard scripts such as Fraktur or
Russian or Greek.
If the book is of the kind commonly available in a typical large
university library, there is no need to send it to us. If it is
of the kind which is not normally in university libraries but is
available in large bookshops, we can purchase it at your cost.
Otherwise, you can send it, but note that return shipping and
insurance (if required) will be at your cost.
We WOULD normally expect to retain the copyright on the computerized
version of old books which are commonly available and out of copyright.
If you would like to retain copyright (for example on your own text,
or if it is a recent book for your private use and you have the
relevant permissions) the fees given under b) and d) above would
apply.
You will receive a draft computer book, which will give you the
opportunity to note any corrections, changes in format, defaults,
and so on. A small amount of new material, too, may still be added
at this stage. Normal proof-reading will be done by us, and is
covered by the fees stated above.
If you send the book to us (or ask us to purchase it on your behalf),
you should state whether you want it returned with the draft, or with
the final version.
Your corrections and changes to the draft will be incorporated in
the final computerized book, and then you will be sent the software
in the same format as the books in our current list, together with
three copies of the printed documentation. (Additional sets of
printed documentation may be purchased at the cost of $2 for
three copies.)
We reserve the right to refuse unsuitable or unpleasant material.
Our fees are subject to a review every three months; the present
document is dated May 1993. You will receive a contract before
work starts. We appreciate your custom.