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Does anyone know if these are in MS Excel format?
If not, it is still a fairly simple, but time consuming, task to transfer to
this format. And a CD could hold all that data and a whole lot more. Plus we are
talking about a book or books that would equal approximately 3-4 1980's
ORERs. If he copyrighted the format and data, with some known errors thrown
in to catch the thieves and pirates, the likelihood of selling dupes would be
diminished. This same thing happened to the L&N HS member that
compiled the diesel roster data. He gave me a copy complete with hand
corrections which I sat on for 6 years before TLC published the L&N diesel
book. About 6 months prior to that date, a softbound copy of said roster was
published with the original errors and no corrections. Where he obtained
the original is not known, but there were a couple of suspects. Nothing was ever
proven and the pirated version sold very few copies. FWIW.
Well, and printing all those copies on "spec"
without money ahead of time would be riiiisky. Personally, I'd be willing
to drive from Detroit to buy a copy!
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