Posting book announcements on the Siouan list (fwd)

[Kathleen Shea]

I agree with you, John.  I would rather not receive commercial announcements
on the Siouan list, unless it's a recommendation from someone on the list.
Besides, I already receive Evolution Publishing's catalogue in paper (as a
result of their buying SSILA or LSA's mailing list?), and for me receiving
it on the Siouan list would be double handling.

Kathy Shea

----- Original Message -----
From: "Koontz John E" <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: Posting book announcements on the Siouan list (fwd)


> I received this enquiry.  I told Mr. Schiavo only announcements of
> publications on Siouan languages would be really appropriate and that I
> was personally of the opinion that it would be better to keep book
> announcements out entirely.  I recommended SSILA as a better alternative.
>
> However, I thought I should ask the list subscribers what they thought.
> I don't think it's so much an issue of volume or length of submission.
> We probably err in all directions already - too much, too little, too
> long, too short, depending on who and when ...  For me it's more a
> question of whether you want direct commercial attention, however apt,
> modest and scholarly, through this channel.
>
> Perversely, if someone reposted an announcement or a review that wouldn't
> bother me.  It's the difference between somebody coming up and asking me
> if I'd like to buy a book and an acquaintance recommending one.
>
> If you have views on this that you'd like to express, feel free to respond
> either to the list or to me personally.
>
> -------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:03:24 EDT
> From: EvolPub at aol.com
> To: John.Koontz at colorado.edu
> Subject: Posting book announcements on the Siouan list
>
> ...
>
> I understand that you are the moderator for the Siouan language list and
was
> wondering if you permitted postings of new book announcements that are
> relevant to the subject matter of the list. We publish a series of Native
> American language vocabularies extracted from historical documents which
the
> readers of your list would likely find interesting. While not all of our
> books deal specifically with Siouan languages, we have two Tutelo and
Saponi
> vocabularies that are due within the next year. Our posts would be
> informational, relevant, tasteful, and infrequent (perhaps 1 per month at
> most).
>
> ... [an included sample announcing an Oneida vocabulary]
>
> Tony Schiavo
> Evolution Publishing
> 10 Canal Street, Suite 231
> Bristol PA 19007
> USA
> www.evolpub.com