Wagner CD-ROM No Longer Available

I am rather kicking myself for not having purchased the Wagner complete works and letters CD-ROM while it was still being published. I brought the Nietzsche CD-ROM, which is still available, but not the Wagner one.

I know this because I contacted the publishers via their website. Here was my inquiry:

Ist dies CD-ROM noch erhältlich? Leider kann ich es nicht finden. 

Richard Wagner: Werke, Schriften und Briefe
Sven Friedrich 2004
Direct Media Publishing Gmbh
ISBN: 3 8985 3507 X
Digitale Bibliothek No. 107 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Here was the answer:

leider ist diese CD-ROM seit geraumer Zeit vergriffen. Eine
Nachlieferung wird nicht möglich sein.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen, 

Stefan Schäfer 

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In short, out of print and unavailable for purchase. This is unfortunate, because when you want to hunt down a passage that you have half remembered it is a very good way of doing it. I have found it a terrible way of reading a work however.

Derrick Everett thinks highly of it

http://www.monsalvat.no/booksfaq.htm#XII

He wrote:

Not only scholars but also all Wagner fans should be grateful to Dr. Sven Friedrich for making available this electronic edition of key documents about Wagner's life and works. Not least those of us who have spent many hours searching for half-remembered passages in Cosima's Diaries; since now we can use the search function of this well-designed electronic edition. All of these texts are in German, except for a few letters written in other languages:

1. Sämtliche Schriften und Dichtungen, volumes 1-12 and 16
2. Sämtliche Briefe, volumes 1-14 (1842-62)
3. Briefe in Originalausgaben:
1. Familienbriefe von Richard Wagner
2. Richard Wagner an Mathilde Wesendonk
3. Briefe Richard Wagners an Otto Wesendonk
4. Richard Wagners Briefwechsel mit Breitkopf und Härtel
5. Richard Wagners Briefwechsel mit B. Schott's Söhne
6. Richard Wagner an Theodor Apel
7. Richard Wagner an August Röckel
8. Richard Wagner an Ferdinand Praeger
9. Richard Wagner an Eliza Wille
10. Richard Wagner an seine Künstler
11. Richard Wagner: Bayreuther Briefe
12. Richard Wagner an Emil Heckel
13. Richard Wagner an Freunde und Zeitgenossen
4. Briefe und Briefwechsel in Einzelausgaben:
1. König Ludwig II und Richard Wagner: Briefwechsel
2. Richard Wagner: Briefe an Hans v. Bülow
3. Franz Liszt - Richard Wagner Briefwechsel
4. Nietzsche und Wagner: Stationen einer epochalen Begegnung
5. Mein Leben (ed. Martin Gregor-Dellin, 1963)
6. Richard Wagner: Das Braune Buch
7. Cosima Wagner: Die Tagebücher 1869-1883
8. Carl Friedrich Glasenapp: Das Leben Richard Wagners
9. Martin Gregor-Dellin: Richard Wagner: Sein Leben, sein Werk, sein Jahrhundert
10. Martin Gregor-Dellin: Richard Wagner: Eine Biographie in Bildern

All I can say is that if, like me, you want this to go back in print, please contact the publishers. Their contact page is as follows:

http://www.versand-as.de/shop/Kontakt-_-7.html

Alternatively:

E-Mail: info@versand-as.de

Maybe if enough people inquired after it, they will republish it.