MIPP Books?

[June Farris]

Please accept this as an information response to your question--I use very many vendors--more than most of my colleagues, I suspect, who by necessity, tend to use only one or two.

I have been using MIPP as one of my primary vendors for Russian, Baltic and Central Asian materials for the last 15 years.  A significant number of my library colleagues at other institutions also use MIPP for both small and large approval plans and individual orders. Originally, they were a bit eccentric in their invoicing, but that has straightened itself out and they are very reputable, reliable and in addition to supplying materials that they have in stock, they have been good at searching out needed titles not in the mainstream.

They are not spammers in any sense, nor do I think their marketing is anyway extraordinary in comparison with the many other vendors of Russian books I use for our library--I receive about the same number of email ads and notifications from them as I do from other vendors.  The problem may perhaps be in both your settings for spam and their email system or some other technical problems or combination of factors that I could not begin to address.  In any case, price-wise, they are neither the cheapest, nor the most expensive,  but somewhere in the middle, veering towards the more expensive. And they are certainly reliable, at least from a library point of view.  I have had no experience in their dealings with individual, non-library customers. One can create a profile (or many profiles) for receiving notifications of current books in a specific subject, region or language, and then ask them not to send any additional emails.

If you're interested, you might want to contact 

Julia Maisak
Customer Service Center
MIPP International
catalog at mippbooks.com

Hope this helps!  June Farris

_________________
June Pachuta Farris
Bibliographer for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
Room 263 Regenstein Library
University of Chicago
1100 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL  60637
jpf3 at uchicago.edu
1-773-702-8456 (phone)
1-773-702-6623 (fax)

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul B. Gallagher
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:20 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] MIPP Books?

Does anyone know anything about this Russian bookseller?

I'm asking because if I received one message from them now and again, I 
would probably consider buying from them, but every day for the past 
week I've gotten several spams, which really eliminates the possibility 
that I would even consider doing business with them.

Are they a reputable company with a really stupid marketing department, 
or just a spammer that I can blow off?

Thanks.

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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