Critical reading....

[JimSupica]

I saw a link to this post and thought "Hey! How'd they get pictures of my guns?" I clicked on it and started to read, muttering things like "prove it" and "sophomoric." Then I scrolled up and saw the byline and decided "Hey, this is pretty good stuff!"

(As I may have already mentioned s/n1 Schofield - pictured - is featured on this week's Gun Stories on Outdoor Channel.)
Smith & Wesson's Most Famous Top-Break: The Schofield | Gun Digest

 

[orbruce]

Jim,

Did you and Rick receive any royalties for use of you article?

B. Mower

 

[JimSupica]

Bruce, Rick & I receive royalties from sales of the book. GunDigest, who posted the article, is also the publisher of SCSW. Part of the contract is that they can use excerpts as they see fit, and I think that's standard for most publishers. It makes some sense, as the excerpts promote the sale of SCSW. As other examples, they've used the engraving chapter from SCSW as the color pages in the 30th Edition of Standard Catalog of Firearms, and the WWII chapter from Illustrated History of Firearms the same way in the 31st.

The more significant problem is that the internet and China are in the process of kicking the snot out of copyright protection, at least from my limited perspective.