Looking for Grapevine Publications books on HP 48

[pier4r]

Hi Massimo, thanks for the info!

Anyway a small rant. I understand that for such small publisher the cost to release "not anymore printed books" in ebook format may be high, but in general since the spread of ebook formats (especially pdf, epub ) , multifunction scanners (that eats a non-binded book quite quickly) and digital stores (amazon); I don't really understand why the sea of books not anymore in print do not get just digitized and available to everyone at "reasonable" costs. For a book that is, aside for few people, out of market, I would expect some 20$ for the digital version.

Even a tiny bit less $$ if one avoids to go through the time consuming process of checking that the scan of the book is of high quality. Slightly rotated pages, missing corners and similar stuff are ok, so one can sell the digitized version for 10$.


edit. Collecting here the info about the Grapevine publishing, since it may get lost elsewhere.

Quote:Grapevine Publications, Inc, was formally founded in May of 1983 in Corvallis, Oregon, by Chris Coffin, Ted Wadman and Bob Bloch. But its true beginning traces back to a dinner conversation on September 29, 1982, when Chris and Ted scribbled down the outline for Grapevine's first book, "An Easy Course in Programming the HP-41." Chris and Ted wrote the text over the next 6 months, with Ted hand-lettering the final version and Bob illustrating it. Since then...well, one book has led to another: 2001 will see the advent of our 60th product. Our company is named Grapevine for several reasons. First, although most of our early publications were technical non-fiction, none of the founders wanted the company to have such a limited scope ; any prospective name was not to imply merely "tech books." Also, since the company started with exactly zero capital--and since its charter was ( and still is ) publication of materials good enough to talk about--its name describes its primary marketing plan. Finally, thinking a little more symbolically, grapevines are hardy but friendly plants, with deep roots--both literally and literarily--and its fruits are good either fresh or distilled over time. Those all seem like good values for a publishing company to aspire to.