What items do you sell that you have poor originals? Perhaps we can find good replacements.
All of the APDA books I have are being printed from scans of photocopies. If Syndicomm were actually profitable (it roughly breaks even on average) enough for me to spend more time at it, I'd look at recreating the books in proper PDF format with real text instead of scans, because that would produce the best output -- and because printing hundreds of pages of full-page scans takes a very long time.
For example, printing the IIc Technical Reference, Second Edition, takes about 16 hours per copy, even though I have a high-speed workgroup printer.
Is there anything from ADPA that you do have the rights to sell but choose not to sell?
Yes and no. I sell every product I have a license for that I also have a master for. There are a couple of products that I could sell legally if I had masters, but there are none. These include the ProDOS 8 Technical Reference and the Apple IIe Technical Reference.
I have personal, original copies of a number of the products I sell but, for what I hope are obvious reasons, I don't want to tear up my only copies of anything in order to rescan them.
Not to mention that scanning hundreds upon hundreds of double-sided pages is extraordinarily tedious (much more so, in fact, than scanning single-sided pages, since a minor mistake can result in a horrible mishmash of a PDF).
If I had spare copies of the books -- and if I thought that rescanning the books would result in enough additional sales to justify the expense -- I would seriously consider buying one of the new double-sided auto-feeding scanners Epson just released, which would make rescanning the books relatively easy to do.
In a perfect world, I'd have real masters and none of this would be necessary. Heck, in a perfect world, I'd have the original Word files used to create these books in the first place and could print from that, which would be faster and result in lovely output quality.
Sheppy