The French get all the good retro books.

[zapiy]

Going on from a small discussion me and TrekMD had about the possibilities of a History of Donkey Kong book. I wanted to share something i found the other day.

http://www.geeks-line.com/ is a French website selling loads of cool looking retro books that we need translating.

[TrekMD]

Hmm, those need translations!

[Greyfox]

These are a pretty nice bunch of books and I'm amazed they slip right through the main stream of the retro gaming community if I'm been honest exactly the same way the Pix'n'love series have, they themselves have covered many platforms and games with a tiny selection getting a French to English translation, which during my time dealt with a representive for them some time ago now, never figured out why they didn't market them in English, other than the Handful they did.

Which all boils down to is translation costs, secondly the additional print run in English doubling the expenses given to producing them in the first place. So yeah with the likes for Bitmap Books and Fusion books and Read Only Memory books filling that gap at present leaves these to ponder to their own markets more than lightly never seeing an English translation or they don't wish to venture outside their own territories which of course is a shame for us, I believe a professional language translation can cost up to 5-10,000 pound depending on the content due to differences in spoken word and meaning, so it's a case of learning their language or setting up your own book translating service beating all other vendors out there.

A question of out of curiosity , what books would you love to see been covered? and what way would you like to be presented? Surely the main ones have been done to death now?

[Lorfarius]

Simple answer is because it costs a small fortune to get a book translated. They had loads of trouble in the past with UK salesmen here plus a couple of translators who did a bunk or didn't do a very good job.

[Simon_G]

I'd like to see a proper PAL collectors guide for each console.  I know there are websites out there that do this kind of thing but no website can match the layout options you get with a page, whether it be physical or digital. 

Books and mags give the creator so much more artistic freedom, something I feel is lost in websites today.  Oh and a boom will be around for years, whereas websites come and go.

[Lorfarius]

Tough one because there's just no money in it these days.

[Greyfox]

Tough one because there's just no money in it these days.

whattcha mean? books or websites etc?

[Lorfarius]

Books on PAL.

[zapiy]

I disagree, all the successful Kickstarters show there is money in this if its done correctly.

[Simon_G]

Surprised you did not make a PAL book from your NES bit efforts Keith.  I see your mate never did anything with it either.  Shame that.