My husband and I spent the morning discussing this issue.
Many of you have privately and publicly suggested that JALP would be of use in certain quarters.
We have decided this.
If there is someone you think should read JALP, we would like you to first approach them either in writing or in person, and get a commitment to read the book. Preferably, in a sense, get that commitment in writing.
Tell us about it.
We will then send you a copy at our expense, not to give to them, but to LEND to them. Put your name in it. Let them know you will chase it up in a month, to get it back, which will put them on notice.
What we are concerned about is that there are limited copies, but we don't want to squash anyone's enthusiasm to rattle a few cages.
If you are really convinced, and prepared to do the spadework to make sure these people will read it, and want to know, and you will retrieve the book, then we will send books to you.
BUT to just post it to someone out of the blue won't work. It will be without a context, and no incentive to move on it, and be buried in a heap.
Think about it. You were only attracted to the idea of JALP in the first place, because poor Bestbirths and Gillie have to mod me
. Who would want that job?
The rest of you probably just wanted to hear what else I'd have to say when my knickers weren't hung in public.
The context was that you knew me.
We can't send something to some who will just say "And who is that antipodean ant?"
IF a person has a relationship with another, as I do with you, then the context becomes more meaningul, and the recipient is more likely to take the issues more seriously.
So... what do you think?
Obviously I don't want to be sending out hundreds of copies given that its a hugely expensive exercise, but whatever copies we send out, ideally, we want kept moving to challenge people's thought processes.
So you'd need to get them back and keep them moving, if that something that you have the commitment to doing and want to do, .... or if there comes a time when there is no-one else to lend it to, then donate it to the library, providing they agree to catalogue it.
Please say if you need the figleaf.
We might consider running another figleaf print run...
Many of you have privately and publicly suggested that JALP would be of use in certain quarters.
We have decided this.
If there is someone you think should read JALP, we would like you to first approach them either in writing or in person, and get a commitment to read the book. Preferably, in a sense, get that commitment in writing.
Tell us about it.
We will then send you a copy at our expense, not to give to them, but to LEND to them. Put your name in it. Let them know you will chase it up in a month, to get it back, which will put them on notice.
What we are concerned about is that there are limited copies, but we don't want to squash anyone's enthusiasm to rattle a few cages.
If you are really convinced, and prepared to do the spadework to make sure these people will read it, and want to know, and you will retrieve the book, then we will send books to you.
BUT to just post it to someone out of the blue won't work. It will be without a context, and no incentive to move on it, and be buried in a heap.
Think about it. You were only attracted to the idea of JALP in the first place, because poor Bestbirths and Gillie have to mod me
. Who would want that job?The rest of you probably just wanted to hear what else I'd have to say when my knickers weren't hung in public.
The context was that you knew me.
We can't send something to some who will just say "And who is that antipodean ant?"
IF a person has a relationship with another, as I do with you, then the context becomes more meaningul, and the recipient is more likely to take the issues more seriously.
So... what do you think?
Obviously I don't want to be sending out hundreds of copies given that its a hugely expensive exercise, but whatever copies we send out, ideally, we want kept moving to challenge people's thought processes.
So you'd need to get them back and keep them moving, if that something that you have the commitment to doing and want to do, .... or if there comes a time when there is no-one else to lend it to, then donate it to the library, providing they agree to catalogue it.
Please say if you need the figleaf
.We might consider running another figleaf print run...
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We never kept the index. the company did a quick trial one on their super duper programme to give us an estimate of pages, and we flagged it, so they didn't keep it.
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I don't know!!! You Americans.... 
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: just trying to help get it to more people and had a thought (actually the e-book biz is big biz)
