I don't think anyone who has met or talked to Norm would characterize him as
you do.
The BON was a tremendous amount of work which yielded little to
nothing monitarily.
Norm keeps the website up and keeps the registry up all
gratis.
In my opinion the BON is a collector item that a lucky 1000 people
own. Some for $1000
some for $58. It is what it is and it is done. I fantasize
about finding one in a garage sale or discount book store stack someday. Other
than that I will be waiting for BONII like most.
One other aspect you and
others don't take into account is that due to this absurd inflation of BON
that Norm did not create or benefit from there would now be a great many
people that either paid $1k for one
or are sitting on theirs believing that
they are worth $1k that woud be very very angry if a reprint came out now.
I've seen BON and its a really nice bunch of info but it is not a requirement
to enjoy Tiger ownership
As said before there are plenty of people on this
list or that you will meet at Tiger events that are happy to look things up
for you
________________________________
From: Marc James Small
<marcsmall@comcast.net>
To: Bill Martin <tigerfixer@yahoo.com>;
CoolVT@aol.com; m_dangelo@verizon.net
Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
Sent: Wed,
March 24, 2010 3:22:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Book of Norman
At 06:13 PM
3/24/2010, Bill Martin wrote:
>
>Ok Mark, how many people do you think have
come up with the scanning idea?
>Norm has been approached with this countless
times and someone did scan one
>and offered it up on CD, but after Norm's
Lawyer got done no more CD's.
>If Norm was greedy he would have done this. He
did his part and didn't make
>any money so why would he concentrate his
efforts on the old book. He has
>told us that he is working on a new companion
book. So without his
>permission it would be it might be easier to build an
ALGER!
>Bill
Thank you, Bill. Note that the name is "Marc" and not "Mark".
The Principle of Enlightened Self-Interest tells us that Norman ought to seek
a quick way to make money, and the scanning task seems the way to go. He can
then concentrate on BON v.2. A scan-and-reprint would be inexpensive, involve
little effort and overhead, and would certainly generate a bit of cash in the
pocket.
You make Norman sound like a really contrary soul with a nasty
streak. I suspect that you are mischaracterizing him. From other reports, he
seems to be a reasonable and decent chap.
Marc
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