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	Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:37:02 -0400
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	>>> Thus far we have done all of our language packages out <<<
	>>> of our own pocket. Thus far: Spanish, French, German, <<<
	>>> Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese, <<<
	>>> Polish, Arabic, Irish. <<<

	> Why didn't your package include esperanto ?

	It's really the same issue. Our new "51 Languages of the World"
	package includes
	Esperanto as one of the 51 languages. We cannot do a separate package
	for
	Esperanto, because we cannot get it "on the shelf." As a separate
	package it
	does not sell enough to meet the minimums of the  stores.

	[[There are about 300,000 CD-ROM products that would like to be
	available in
	software stores. But large stores stock only 4,000 titles or so. Most
	stores
	stock a fraction of that. The competition is intense and "niche"
	products, no
	matter how good, don't get on the shelf. An interesting statistic: The
	mean
	sales of a new multimedia CD-ROM title is less than 100 units over the
	life of
	the product. What does that mean? It means MOST new multimedia
	products, even
	those costing from $500,000 to $millions to build, never get on any
	shelf. The
	title sells a few copies to frends and family, and that's it. I know
	this list
	isn't interested in commercial topics per se, but I include this since
	people
	might find it useful in their thinking about how to take advantage of
	the
	commerical world to achieve non-commercial language objectives.]]

	So we created our "31 Languages" product to be able to get at least a
	taste of
	the less-common languages on the shelf in our learning system. That
	actually
	worked, and now it's "51 Languages," including Esperanto, which is
	just arriving
	in stores now.

	The idea of our ELRP Project is to see if we can find a mechanism for
	creating
	complete learning packages for less-common languages.

	Michael

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Michael Quinlan
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					      Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:58:51
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					      From: Marion Gunn <mgunn at ucd.ie>
					      Subject: Re: ELL: Who are the
					      Anishanabe?
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					      From: Marion Gunn <mgunn at ucd.ie>
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					      I wish to thank Henry Szymonik,
					      Henry Kammer and John O'Meara
					      for relevant
					      info. Are there any
					      Anishnaabe/Anishinaabeg people
					      currently subscribed to
					      this list?

					      Best,
					      Marion Gunn


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