Alarums and Excursions archive?

[leg1on]

Hi All,

Has there been done or is anyone planning on doing a compilation of all back issues of A&E for release as a DVD archive?

Even just the first decade or two would be boss.

There must be an insane amount of useful info in there.

Thanks,

Legion

[Deleted]

Probably not since Lee Gold is still producing them and is still selling back issues.

[cadriel]

A few years back Lee was kind enough to copy the first twenty issues for me (at some cost for paper, copying and shipping). No idea if she'd do it again.

I imagine the rights issues for the reproduction would be a nightmare, every person retained rights to what they contributed. So hundreds of people would need to sign off and be compensated for their copyrighted work.

[leg1on]

I just rec'd this email from Lee Gold (quoted with her permission):

"Electronic issues of A&E are available starting with #312, through the most recent issue (#441, June, 2012) for $2/issue by email. I could probably put those on a DVD at the same $2/issue plus 50 cents for the DVD and jewel box.

My husband Barry Gold will scan pages of old A&Es at 25 cents per page, but many of those old issues ran 160 pages so that would come to $40 for just one issue. It takes Barry 5-10 minutes to do a scan to his (somewhat perfectionistic) standards.

I do have indexes of the first hundred issues by author.
And I have a complete run of all the issues.

If you ever get a volunteer to come to our West LA home with a scanner, we'd allow him/her to scasn these issues, but it would have to be done one page at a time rather than by sheetfeed because the paper is old and fragile. And of course the results would not always be easily readable because the original printing was done in ditto or mimeograph. The volunteer could then, of course, run the scan results through his/her favorite OCR."