Steve, I've already bought two copies of your custom rifles book and one copy of one of your shotgun books, will soon have the other. Michael, I already have your book and wait eagerly for your next one.
Michael makes my point perfectly. The ASSRA already has rights to most (not all) of its already-published articles and so the only added effort would be to organize the info and paste it up, or whatever the digital equivalent is these days. Printing and distribution costs are the same whether the info is new or a reprint. That's what Dave Brennan did with Michael's articles as well as several other PS authors, and it seems to work well for him. Also I'm sure Brett Boyd wouldn't be reprinting his SSE stuff if he wasn't making a profit. The ASSRA wouldn't even have to pay the original authors any additional fees, unlike the deal with reprinting Michael's PS articles. Froggie has volunteered to collect the info so we'll see what happens. If the ASSRA won't fund the reprint then maybe they'd grant the reprint rights to Froggie. BTW the ASSRA does not own the reprint rights to my articles but I've given them to Froggie for this project. I wish him luck and will buy the reprint even though I already have all the articles in my Journal back issues.
Regards, Joe
