Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 969536, member: 26302&quot;]Lol, just wrote about Frank&#039;s book on the &quot;5 questions&quot; thread. I could also write about many more, including the companion volumes Greek Coins and Byzantine Coins to Sutherlands Roman work. I like the whole set. I don&#039;t like checklist books much either, prefering the blending of history and background of the coinage with plates instead of pure listings and photos. I loved Vagi&#039;s two volume work. Too bad it never was received better. I still buy the &quot;...and their values&quot; works that I know will be outdated, its just the way Ras has presented his book immediately as a &quot;first draft&quot;, and now releasing it for free, just is new and has me worried as to the long term value of ERIC II. That&#039;s all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the idea has always bothered me about everyone on the internet thinking everything should be free. Everything we know about these coins has taken thousands of man hours and many careers to obtain. These authors need to be paid, to be able to make a living what they are doing. Historically this has been by publishing, with the buyers of the books obtaining something of value. If you strip that away, I am afraid not many people would be as noble as you Doug and pay just to support the effort. If there isn&#039;t a value proposition there, then the market will dry up, along with the research. That is the fear. Free websites are fine, but it would be pretty hard to support updating RIC that way, along with many other historical volumes, along with new ideas and books. I just love my ancient coin books too much to think that some day there will not be any more printed, (published, on kindle, etc).</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. Robinson&#039;s book has some ancient content, amybe if we promise to buy more in his auctions we can convince him. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in