[DML] Re: Print it again...

[James Espey <james@xxxx>]

At the time I was considering doing this, I worked in commercial printing
and having previously done the DeLorean poster project, I felt this was
something that could also be economically feasible. The original printing
films still exist, and are in good condition.

Total costs for for reprinting, binding, shipping, rights and all the other
things associated with doing something this size came to about $20,000. I
had committments for more than half of this when interest died out.

Also, John Lamm was not really interested in doing a new "chapter" on the
events of the last 15+ years - he felt that to do it right would take about
10-12 months of research and writing, which would also add significantly to
the costs.

Neither Lamm nor the former owner of Newport Press were too excited about
it at the time, they still had some bad tasts in their mouth from the
original printing - like many things related to the demise of the original
De Lorean Motor Company, it had the prospects of being far more profitable.
JZD is also not very fond of the book as it was written, either.

I have maintained a dialog with John and Rich so as not to close the door
on this, and would be interested in discussing it with others that are
interested VIA PRIVATE EMAIL.

James Espey

At 10:55 PM -0500 12/11/99, Mark Noeltner wrote:
>I think the real issue in re-printing SSI would be getting the needed
>permissions to do it.
>
>James Espey was looking into a softcover and hardcover reprint of SSI a
>year or two ago. See this archive issue for the initial post he did:
>http://www.dmcnews.com/backissues/dml352.html
>
>My quick search didn't turn up the results of this, but my often
>fallible memory says that he ran into problems getting permission to do
>the reprint due to legal issues.
>
>Mark N
>VIN 6820