Thread: Charles Hayward book

Originally Posted by GraemeCook

Yes!

Another trick of the publishing industry is to bring out "revised and updated" editions long after the author died. This practice "refreshes" the copyright as it is now based on the life span of the "co-author" who may never have met the original author.

I think changes made to the revised and updated versions apply, especially if there are updated figures or pictures - those aren't free to take. But the original editions here generally are out of copyright.

If you run across C.S., he's usually got some comment about more being added to a newer edition to encourage buying in print.

Toolemera press is someone in the US who does this stuff for a living and so did his dad as far as I know, so there's not going to be any legal issues with PDFs he shares. It's entirely possible that if he decides to print a book current print, he may take down the PDF.

I could be wrong, but I think his reprints (I have a few) are a lot less flavored by him or his group than the schwarz - they're just reprints without some of the pretentious bits, but they can also be esoteric in some cases.

Any time there is big discussion of a book (and hayward was one that everyone was on about a few years ago) and it's not in reprint, you'll find scumbags putting up any copy they can find at an old library for three or four figures.

What a coincidence! I was clearing my garage recently and found the same book. I hadn’t seen it for 57 years since I was at school. Charles Haywood wrote many of the woodworking books back then. I still have some of the tools I made from his book.