Henry Ford's Own Story

Most of Rose’s books came out before the magic year where copyrighted books currently pass into public domain. Several publishing companies have taken to reprinting these books. They don’t have to pay anything for the text, so except for the costs of actual book production, the entire price of the book is profit. I wrote previously on the Trundlebed Tales blog about copies of re-printed copies I purchased of The Making of Herbert Hoover and Diverging Roads, both by Rose Wilder Lane. These re-printed books were scanned from original copies; pages were  simply printed from the scans and bound as a book.

Now, I’ve found another book re-printed in a slightly different manner. It’s produced by a different company called Dodo Press. Unlike those, this version of Henry Ford’s Own Story by Rose Wilder Lane was clearly re-typed. It doesn’t include any extras, like a table of contents. It’s just the title page and the text block. The book design isn’t the greatest, but the text is large and clear. Dodo says their mission is: “Where books are no longer in print or poorly available we are seeking to make them available again by republishing, we do this through 2 Imprints called Dodo Press and Asio Press.”

You can read more about their books on this website.

Besides Dodo’s own books, they also sell reprints and originals by other companies including other titles by and about Rose. I’ve only purchased the one copy from them, but I had no problems with the order.

Sarah S. Uthoff, Trundlebed Tales