JumbleDuck
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Promotion of a short print run of a book produced as a labour of love by relatives is about as far from commercial use as you can get and still involve money.
RIP Percy Blandford.
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Promotion of a short print run of a book produced as a labour of love by relatives is about as far from commercial use as you can get and still involve money.
double_ender
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I remember Percy Blandford as a genial fellow scout instructer at the Longridge Scout Center in the '60s, always a source of advice, help and fun., Malcolm
Sticky Fingers
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Might it be a publishing-related spat. This forum is run / owned by Time Inc I believe, a publisher...?
JumbleDuck
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How threatened does Time Inc (revenue in 2014 around $3bn) feel by a self-published run of 200 copies?
Sticky Fingers
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Well, quite. It seems amazingly petty, unless there's something else ...
Sniper
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I have no commercial interest in this whatsoever, but I understand that if one were to email diane.naested AT gmail.com, it would be possible to find out how to obtain the autobiography!
Seajet
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BUMP here you are demonboy.
Rivers & creeks
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Another +1, generally the mods do a decent job but this is outrageous. This is a boating website and the book was a non-profit short run about a great designer of boats. Mods you should be ashamed of yourselves.
reginaldon
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Will those MODS name themselves. Thanks to Percy Blandford's PBKs I also took to the water
sailorman
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We built a canoe at skool in lunch breaks
Lodesman77
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Explanation required from MODS for this. Shameful behaviour.
Robin
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Are they all swilling Gin at SIBS, no sign of a response here is there?
VicS
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You'll be the next sent on indefinite shore leave when they see that!
Might as well sign up for the "other place" now.
Robin
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Signed up but didn't see anything I liked and never did more than occasionally look. Anyway it was only an honest question/observation! This is all so bizarre it really does justify a response from the Modgods.
Wandering Star
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Yep, like to add my name to the list of "outraged" forumites, I presume though the mods are younger than most forumites and may not have been aware of Percy Blandford and his contribution to sailing boat design. I can't believe a limited run edition of the mans biography would have been compiled as anything more than a deserved tribute, I can't imagine the author/publisher retiring on the profits. More a labour of love than a commercial venture.
auntpeg44
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This was a labour of love myself and my sister always promised we would get Gramps autobiography published he wrote this himself aged 95yrs a feat in itself and we have only had 500 copies printed we just wanted to get his story out there as it is an amazing one not for profit or recognition but because we are proud to of been his granddaughters. Thankyou everyone for your support regards Carole Blandford
Just_sayin'
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Meanwhile if you want to see an advertisement for a yacht delivery company on a regular basis, no, sorry a very interesting YouTube video of a boat leaving a harbour, some dolphins and then arriving at a harbour, you know where to look.
One coming soon.
One coming soon.
sailorman
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Any turns to port in it
adwuk
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... or even a video of someone interviewing a bunch of their mates and promoting products available at SIBS. Seems like the mods have this one wrong, and hopefully will have the good sense to correct it.
sailorman
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also getting paid themselves for "clicks"
