OK OK stop already with the "it can't be done"
stuff. Let me explain.
What I am theorizing (not even proposing) is that we
would find someone
who would be willing to translate from the German
for little or no money
(unfortunately), and then we print a BLACK AND WHITE
booklet, possibly
even xeroxed if that were cheaper, with JUST THE
TEXT, as well as
back-references to the book pages. We would sell
Christel's book bundled
with this translation.
The key is to do this with notable books of which
there is no plan to
publish in English and to get the author's
permission. It's kind of like
Anime fansubbing.
There is precedent for this. The ACA originally
sold English translations
of the Linke and Staeck cichlid books published by
Tetra press in the
1980's, before a real translation came out in the
1990's. Mike Wise,
an Apistogramma zealot in Denver, has been
personally translating seminal
German dwarf cichlid texts since the early 1980's
and giving away the
translated manuscripts for printing cost.
I'm thinking that this might be one way in which the
AGA can continue with
our book sales mission -- bringing otherwise
unavailable books to the
hobby. The key in this case is finding an
appropriate nut job who
can translate German.
- Erik
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, S. Hieber wrote:
> I wish I could remeber what she said about this
kind of
> thing. The best I can recall is that it's hard to
find a
> good translator, it's expensive, it's very hard
for sales
> to cover printing costs.
>
> Are you thinking of a stapled "handout" that
accompanies
> the already printed book?
>
> sh
>
> --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe this is an opportunity for the AGA... if
there is
>> no english version
>> of the Echinodorus book planned, we could have
someone
>> translate it into
>> German, and sell the translation along with the
german
>> edition...
>>
>> --
>> Erik Olson
>> erik at thekrib dot com
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:34:20 -0400
>> From: JAMES PURCHASE <jppurchase@rogers.com>
>> Reply-To: aquatic plants digest
>> <aquatic-plants@actwin.com>
>> To: aquatic plants digest
<aquatic-plants@actwin.com>
>> Subject: [APD] Re: Kasselmann's Book
>>
>> To: Anyone who cares to read...
>>
>> I've ordered Kasselmann's new book, and am
looking
>> forward to reading it.
>> However, she also has a book devoted to
Echinodorus (so
>> far, only available in
>> German) that I would give my eye-teeth for in
English. If
>> anyone has any
>> contact with Christel, please encourage her to
have it
>> translated into English
>> (Karen, are your online?)
>>
>> James Purchase
>> Toronto
>>
>>
>>
>>
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