From: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com (glencook-fans-digest) To: glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: glencook-fans-digest V1 #184 Reply-To: glencook-fans-digest Sender: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-glencook-fans-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk glencook-fans-digest Sunday, May 19 2002 Volume 01 : Number 184 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 01:27:18 +0400 From: "APZK" Subject: Re: Re[2]: (glencook-fans) Print on Demand > Far be it from my affairs what information sources you use but perhaps you > shouldn't trust those particular newspapers quite so much, or else you'd > find yourself repeating somebody's grandma's anecdotes for a fact. I don't trust newspapers at all :-). But I must to confess that my opinion is based lightly on impressions taken from cinema and books. For example, I never seen peoples in subway, reading books in US movies :-). Joke. > Allow me to let you know - few bookstores in Russia can > compare with the most provincial "Barnes & Noble" in the States, and it > doesn't end with the bookstores - the library in my college for example > has almost 5 million volumes - not only in English but also in Russian, > Spanish, French etc. etc... Size of bookstores don't mean nothing (By the way, have you seen book fair "Knizhnyi mir" at sport complex "Olimpisciy"? It is not small ;-) ). For example, I think that shoes shops in US larger than in Russia. And so you think that all people in Russia walking barefooted? Hmmm... I agree, bookstores in the States much better than in Russia, but it is formed by economic situation. Of course, it is very good if I always can find book I needed, but if don't find it, I simple take other book. Meaning of total amuont of books is nothing - decisive factor is total amount of readers. Why I think that there are more readers in Russia? First, when Russia was USSR there were not so much entertaiments - for example, TV was very dull (I must say that it is now not so good as in US - most of people haven't any commercial cable- or satellite- TV - only 8 official channels). Second, in Russian schools is large literary curriculum. >While popularity of a certain author - e.g. > Glen Cook - may be greater in Russia, the statement that people there read > more in general seems rather far-fetched. I don't mean popularity of certain author. > From what I've seen of the Russian online bookshelves usually they're not > connected to publishers (that is - regular, hard-copy publishers) in any > way, so it's difficult to make an assertion how much Russian publishers > are happy with the existence of the online books. Maybe the proliferation > of the online libraries is more due to the fact of the handicapped judicial > system than because of the benevolence of the said publishers. I can't say about all authors whom book was e-published in Russia, but I can say that new book of popular russian fantasy (hm... maybe it is not fantasy... I can't define genre of his books correctly) author Max Frei was published in internet with his full agreement. And publication of this book beginned before it's "paper" publications. It is not single event. > Maybe you might want to start signing your messages before asking personal > questions. Come to think of it, signing one's messages in general seems > like a good way of conveying respect to the people you're > communicating with... I'm not signing my messages not because I'm hiding my name. If somebody want to know my name, I can say it in private letter. Simple, there are no my sign inserted by mail program because... mmmm.... I dislike some kind of peoples called "spamers", etc (I don't mean that somebody from this forum is "spamer") . P.S. I think that this branch of discussion became some offtopic. I'll send you mail. ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 13:32:39 EDT From: CookReader@aol.com Subject: Re: (glencook-fans) Deadly quicksilver lies In a message dated 4/27/02 10:57:56 PM, dfgarcia@stic.net writes: << Anybody know if this book is still in print. It is keeping me from moving on in the series. >> You get one yet? ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit . ------------------------------ End of glencook-fans-digest V1 #184 *********************************** ======================================================================= To unsubscribe, subscribe, or access the archives of this list, visit .