Swing and I are now "in talks" about the project
If we do this book, I will try to sell it through a metal detecting publisher or company, such as Garret, White, MineLab etc. But I WANT it AVAILABLE to bookstores as well. We could go Amazon self-publish also. It all depends on what we decide as we talk it over in emails.
I want to keep the price as reasonable as possible so that detectorists who are just starting out aren't priced out of the market. However, I am going to ask Swing to add things that are not included in this thread (I will also add things, and edit, in cooperative collaborative effort) in order to have information that will make people want to buy it instead of just copying this thread out!
One thing I would like would be to do a FAQ for the book, taking questions that have been asked and putting them in one place, a chapter or an appendix. If I do, I will ask each person, indivicually, to give me permission to publish their question verbatim OR to paraphrase the question. I will *not* publish anyone's words on this forum WITHOUT permission from that author.
I should probably also ask the forum owners / moderators for their permission to edit and publish this thread. Intellectual property rights do exist and laws are becoming formulated to handle them.
I think this thing will fly! Or swing!
Back when I did work on a small paper, I had a sign on my desk. It read "IDIOTOR". It was always astonishing to me how FEW people actually NOTICED it!
SageGrouse