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Re: Brickshelf L.L.C.
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:17:56 GMT
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The saddest part of all this, for me, is the 'loss' of the Instructions
scans. Do you think it might be possible to release them on CD's? I would
imagine the sale of the (discontinued) instructions would help pay for the
site - provided of course you can work out some kind of agreement with LEGO.

In lugnet.general, Kevin Loch writes:

A related concequence is that the Instruction and Catalog scan library had to
be taken offline.  This was necessary because the Company had not yet received
permission from LEGO to use them on a commercial site, and to reduce bandwidth
costs.  I sincerely hope that a workable business solution can be found for
those two issues.

Kevin M Loch
Manager,
Brickshelf L.L.C.




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(...) Releasing instruction scans on CD's would be neat. Perhaps a good legal way to do this would be to give the CD's away FREE but have a high shipping and handling charge of $15.00 - $25.00 for the first CD and $10.00 per disc thereafter, for (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)

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Before anyone gets too excited about this, no money changed hands in this transaction. This is a necessary part of the conversion from a "hobby" site to a commercial site. While it would have been nice to run it as a hobby site forever, the immense (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.general) ! 

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