A while back I reviewed Amazon.com: Location Scouting and Management Handbook: Television, Film and Still Photography: Robert Maier: Books:
Amazon Editorial Review:
“Discover what makes an excellent location, how to manage the location and how to handle any problems that might come up.”
“I also bought this book back in the ’90’s and lent it to an associate who never returned it!
The person I loaned it to knew very little of location scouting and location management and since I never got the book back I can only assume they found it very useful…
Perhaps this novice level of reader was the target audience; the book does give some of the basic ‘mechanics’ and duties expected of a location professional but does not go into the many intracies of diplomacy and, as an example, being able to purvey to a lay property owner in a succinct way what you are doing, what production will be doing, what is expected of them and what is in it for them.”
…I went on to say (among other things) that I thought the book needed an update, the book was grounded in ’80’s - ’90’s vintage technology and I didn’t think the book accurately addressed current challenges and practices of a digital-age location scout.
Location Scouting and Management Handbook is currently out of print. The copy I bought was a paperback edition (as is currently listed on Amazon…) when I bought it new it was maybe $20 - $25:
6 used & new from $75.00
I probably would have more careful loaning my copy out had I known it would be a collectors edition! LOL 
R. Richard Hobbs’ Customer Reviews
- R. Richard Hobbs gave 4 stars to: Location Scouting and Management Handbook Thursday, 27 October 2005, 1:43 pm
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