lojban book at www.amazon.com

[Steven Belknap <sbelknap@UIC.EDU>]

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