[Theepistle] Kindling interest

[Tim Forcer]

At 14:41 18/01/2010, you wrote:

>  The Hodder anthologies were scanned in and proof-read by me.

Yikes!

>  Hodders have absolutely nothing Saintly in their archive (I
>  checked). Further editions of those anthologies are not out
>  of the question--particularly since volume 1 sold out in six
>  months--but Hodders are waiting to see what happens with the
>  TV pilot (as are we all).

Good news at the Vol 1 sales, not unexpected that Hodders want to 
"wait and see".  As with Hollywood, nobody gets sacked for trying to 
repeat a best-selling blockbuster, but nobody wants to risk something 
which _might_ be the next best-selling blockbuster (but is nothing 
like the last one) or which might simply do good business but won't 
generate a megabucks bonus.

>  But the interesting thing is that Hodders don't have electronic
>  rights to those anthologies--we went through some quite painful
>  negotiations to get them taken out.

Good for you.

>  And to take a point you rise in the first half of your response
>  --what format would you see them being released in?

A non-proprietary one.  Plain text would be ideal (for re-sizability 
etc), but loses bold, italic, special characters, etc.  So some sort 
of HTML?  With rights management of a sensible sort.

Tim