Thursday, February 09, 2006

Wow! What a Website

DiscountSeforim.com :: Custom Reprint

More than 17,000 rare and out of print seforim (Jewish Books) organized by topic. Browse our Custom Reprints or search for a specific sefer.

Custom Reprints are clear digital reprints of seforim. They are all 8.5" x 11" and are bound with a flexible, clear protective front and back covers and a solid, sealed spine. For an additional fee, a sefer can be bound in hard cover with gold embossed writing.

7 comments:

  1. THE GEMURAH SAYS YOUR OIVER LFNEIH IVER WHEN YOU GIVE A GENTILE NEVAILAH?SINCE WHEN IS THERE LFNEI IVER BY A GGOY OR IS THERE A DIFFRENCE IN THIS CASE BY A BNEI NOACH?

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  2. There is Lifnei Iver by non-Jews, see Tosafos Yom Tov to Avodah Zarah 1:5.

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  3. Is there a problem with this site? They're selling offprints from the Otzar HaChochmah hard-disk library (17,000 books in PDF for $3000 or so). Does Otzar have a copyright? Certainly they have watermarked every page to indicate the source. Does Discount Seforim have a license to print this stuff off?

    When I figured out that that's what they were, I quickly ordered offprints of a couple of anti-Sabbatean tracts I had been seeking (Mitpachat Seforim by the Yaavetz, and Tzitzat Novel Tzvi by R' Jacob Sasportas, a contemporary enemy of STz.

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  4. I had no idea. I thought they actually photocopied the stuff for each order.

    It may takkeh be a problem. I do not know if I am mechuyav to retract my existing order, but once you raised the issue, I am not sure one is allowed to order from them before further birurim.

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  5. I spoke to the people at www.discountseforim.com and they said that they spoke to rabbanim about this (they did not say which ones) who said that it is ok halachically to print the seforim.
    Seforim Reprints

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  6. Here is another site which prints seforim of HebrewBooks.org titles (with permission):

    http://www.publishyoursefer.com/

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