The Archaeology of Airfields - Bob Clarke

Indeed you do. And that is the responsibility of the publisher. Thats why you only receive 8% of the cover price in royalties. Tempus had employed one from Midland Publishing just before they went.
Bob

And lets not forget when Amazon sell at a discount you only get 8% of that! Which is why its more than a little depressing when the publishers side of things collapse like it did for 'Arch of Air'. On a standard run of 1200 as with Cold War I made just over £1000. Am I tempting anyone?

Bob

Splendid, thank you for the welcome. Ok who would like some Boscombe Down photos posted? and what is the size limit?

Bob

I see that on pprune tonight there is a thread about a book called "Jet Provost - The Little Plane with a Big History". I used to call them 'constant speed variable noise machines'. A Cranwell they all seemed to bumble along at the same speed, irrespective of what they were doing, the only difference being the amount of noise they were chucking out behind them. The slower they wnet the louder they seemed to be. Bring back the Phantom I say!

The pundit who posted on pprune had got his book from Amazon at some massive discount, as indicated by Bob above.

Bob

Thanks for joining the forum and explaining the problems you had. Welcome to AiX anyway and I look forward to your posts and input on the forum.

bob wrote:

Just as a foot note you will be glad to hear that as Tempus went I had no royalties for it. Lesson Learned.

Good luck with the update Bob - it will become a valuable reference I'm sure.
You are not the only one to be ripped off by Tempus (and its earlier guises). Some good friend of mine published a book through them, (it became a 'bible' in its field) and reserved the rights to buy their unsold copies at a later date for a nominal price. The publisher ignored this part of the contract and sold them to another dealer, at a tiny fraction of the price my mates would have paid. They have nothing good to say about the company.

This link is of interest.

Graham

reserved the rights to buy their unsold copies at a later date for a nominal price. The publisher ignored this part of the contract and sold them to another dealer, at a tiny fraction of the price my mates would have paid.

Same here unfortunately. My Berlin Airlift book was sold en-mass to Postscript only a few months after publishing. I had the rights on those as well. They were having a cash flow problem at the time!! Oh well.

I have been through all your suggestions and made changes where needed. Thank you for pointing them out. I have also tightened the text up in around 150 places and added the paragraph which was left out of chapter six (page 135 between para two and three). Hopefully it should be far better this time around.

Best wishes

Bob

The Archaeology of Airfields - Bob Clarke ISBN 978-0-7524-4401-7 I've just received this book from Amazon has anyone else read it? It looks at first glance pretty well written and informative.