Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 14:19:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710181919.OAA14740@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Steven Belknap Sender: Lojban list From: Steven Belknap Subject: lojban book at www.amazon.com X-To: LOJBAN@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 2124 Lines: 40 I just looked for the lojban book at www.amazon.com Its there! Of course, lojban central may make a little more money per copy if bought direct from them, so do that if that is an option. Still, I suspect that over the next year many more copies will be purchased through www.amazon.com than through lojban central, especially if our library seeding program is effective. Any possibility that Cowan could do a book tour? :) For those seeding books, remember these points, some posted previously: 1. Try to get the library to buy it rather than accept a donation. There are usually patron request forms available at the circulation desk. 2. Donate the book only on condition that the library doesn't already have a copy and that it will either be shelved or returned to you. (Sometimes libraries raise cash by selling off donated books instead of shelving them.) 3. Ask the librarian to put it on the "new acquisitions" shelf. (Not all books make it onto this shelf. This shelf is usually in a highly visible place in the library.) 4. See if the library can notify patrons of the new acquistion. Many libraries at academic institutions have some way of telling patrons likely to be interested of the acquisition of a new book. 5. Some libraries have reviews in their library newsletter about new books. Write 'em a review. (The publishers of mainstream books do this. People are lazy, so they take the "review" and publish it. Could lojban central provide us with a review filler press release? Something like: 1 November 1997 (whereever, virginia) The Logical Languages Group today announces publication of the newly baselined grammer. Derived from original research done by James Cooke Brown, blah blah blah. By the way, has lojban central managed to get any reviews by the mainstream press, linguistics journals, or logic journals? Its amazing how many copies of a book that a review, even in a small readership publication, may sell. -Steven Steven Belknap, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria