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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3504956, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t see this as a problem but recognition that technology changes the way we do things.&nbsp; I love my old catalogs but I would much rather have them all reentered in digital, searchable format so I could see what Joel Malter sold in 1963 as easily as what CNG sold last month.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I once thought I saw the future in numismatic publishing but I was wrong. Victor Failmezger asked me to do the coin photos for his book <b>Roman Bronze Coins from Paganism to Christianity 294-364 AD</b>.&nbsp; To humor me (since I was receiving no compensation for my photos) A CD ROM was included with the first printing of these books.&nbsp; It contained larger versions of the individual coins illustrated in the book on the 42 group (15 coin) plates. A few special coins were shown in two sizes but all were big enough to see details much better than you could on the lifesize printed plates.&nbsp; This was explained on page xi of the book and the CD was included at no charge.&nbsp; Many dealers who handled the books did not bother to distribute the disks.&nbsp; Silly me thought that this would catch on and all coin books would soon include digital and enlargeable images.&nbsp; I even thought we would soon see smaller books issued with no photos on cheaper paper but with many times more images than possible on paper at a fraction of the price.&nbsp; I thought people would adopt the concept to get a $200 book for $20.&nbsp; I was wrong.&nbsp; Most people who got the disks did not use them and later printings were not accompanied by the disk.&nbsp; I have not seen mention of the disk with any used copies I have seen even though used copies of the book sell for several times the issue price. </p><p><br /></p><p>People are slow to accept new things.&nbsp; In 2002, I expected books now would have digital image backup but now I would expect the images to be links to web based plates.&nbsp; I would love to have seen books like the Sunrise collection backed up by online image links.&nbsp; People would not buy a $20 digitally imaged book on ordinary paper when they could get tiny images for ten times the price.&nbsp; There are online only books but there are some uses for page flipping so I did not foresee the end of paper.&nbsp; I wonder if this will change when my generation (those who flip pages) have all passed. </p><p><br /></p><p>If any of you own the Failmezger&nbsp; book and have the disk in its original packing, I would like to hear from you whether or not you want it. I do not have a professionally reproduced and labelled one.&nbsp; I do have all the files. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if anyone ever looked at the enlargements or few details on that disk?&nbsp; They were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 990 which seemed good in 2002 but is embarrassing today.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]929396[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]929395[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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