Hi everyone, this is my first post, but I used this forum when I was deciding what device to buy so thanks :)

I used to be an avid reader of the Willard Price 'Adventure' books when I was a kid.
Many years ago, I scanned my favourite of the series, 'Diving Adventure' but I never got round to doing the rest of the series.

I was wondering if anyone else loves these books as much as I do and would like to collaborate?
Two problems that I have right now are that I haven't got a scanner and I'm having trouble finding OCR software for my OS (Ubuntu)

I have a DSLR camera,, so that could take the place of the scanner I guess, but it would be nice not to have to do it all myself!

If anyone's interested, I'll upload Diving Adventure and maybe we can get a project together?

Williard Price died in 1983. His books come out of copyright in Canada in 2034

Hi everyone, this is my first post, but I used this forum when I was deciding what device to buy so thanks :)

I used to be an avid reader of the Willard Price 'Adventure' books when I was a kid.
Many years ago, I scanned my favourite of the series, 'Diving Adventure' but I never got round to doing the rest of the series.

I was wondering if anyone else loves these books as much as I do and would like to collaborate?
Two problems that I have right now are that I haven't got a scanner and I'm having trouble finding OCR software for my OS (Ubuntu)

I have a DSLR camera,, so that could take the place of the scanner I guess, but it would be nice not to have to do it all myself!

If anyone's interested, I'll upload Diving Adventure and maybe we can get a project together?

Oh wow, I thought he died in the 50's for some reason.
That explains why I couldn't find them online then.
I guess my copy is for personal use only.

Investigating further (OK, reading his wikipedia article), it seems that the Adventure stories are now owned by Fleming Literary Management, or were at the end of 2006.

Since they paid a reported six figure sum for the rights, you'd think they were planning to do something with them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2950812/Fleming-media-banks-on-Price-estate.html

Although FLM seems to be still in business (from companies house info), they are overdue on filing accounts. They don't seem to have an active web site, and one of their co-founders is no longer with them (Simon Clegg)

http://www.abovethetitle.com/product/SIMON%20CLEGG/

So - definitely private use only. Did you know there were 14 in all, published from 1949 to 1980?

Oh wow, I thought he died in the 50's for some reason.
That explains why I couldn't find them online then.
I guess my copy is for personal use only.

Not only did I know that he wrote 14 of them, but I have two complete sets, one set from when I read them as a kid and a new set that I bought about 10 years ago because the old ones are falling apart :D

I don't know why I got the time of his death confused, I must have just had a brain fart :blink:

I have a great fondness for these books. They seem rather old fashioned and not politically correct, but they got me interested in natural history.

I wonder what would happen if/when the company that holds the right to them went bust? Would they then become public domain?

Maybe they could avoid such a catastrophe by scanning the books themselves and releasing them as ebooks?
I know I'd buy a set in a heartbeat, and I bet I'm not the only person that grew up on them and would love to see them released in electronic form.

I wonder what would happen if/when the company that holds the right to them went bust? Would they then become public domain?

The copyright would be come part of the assets of the failed LLP that the official receiver would sell off to try to raise money for the creditors.

Maybe they could avoid such a catastrophe by scanning the books themselves and releasing them as ebooks?
I know I'd buy a set in a heartbeat, and I bet I'm not the only person that grew up on them and would love to see them released in electronic form.

You could try contacting them and asking. You never know....