Publisher note

[Michael Denner]

Lisa,
I'm sure to sound strident here...

Was it the authors' fault that, when KH saw fit (finally after five or six years) to produce a "second edition" of _Live from Moscow_, it consisted exclusively in replacing the cassette tape with a CD which was significantly INFERIOR in quality to the original cassette tape? (Y'all apparently just pointed a cheap cassette player at a microphone -- one can hear the sounds of buttons clicking). Moreover, the CD lacked track points (just one long file), thus making it nearly useless? (My poor students had to fast-forward through the CD, looking for the next exercise.)

Since you left the textbook itself unchanged-with a not inconsiderable number of serious errors and embarrassingly dated-the "second edition" of the textbook was actually worse than the first.

But it cost more. And drove out the first edition.

Was that attributable to the authors' failings? Or will you perhaps admit that KH was at fault?

Am I the only language instructor who feels ill used by the industry?

~mad
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
   Dr. Michael A. Denner
   Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal
   Director, University Honors Program


   Contact Information:
      Russian Studies Program
      Stetson University
      Campus Box 8361
      DeLand, FL 32720-3756
      386.822.7381 (department)
      386.822.7265 (direct line)
      386.822.7380 (fax)

      google talk michaeladenner
      www.stetson.edu/~mdenner


-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa O'Mara
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:38 PM
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] Publisher note

FYI, if there is problems with a textbook and the release date. Please
do not jump the conclusion that it is always the publisher. Sometimes
the author(s) do not hit their target dates, therefore we can not print
something that isn't finished, as in the case with Live from Russia.



Lisa O'Mara

Assistant Project Editor



Kendall Hunt Professional Publishing

4050 Westmark Dr.

Dubuque, Iowa 52002

563-589-1009

1-800-258-2363

lomara at kendallhunt.com






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