I wonder if Prof. Jim Muller might shed some light himself on what he understands is the present status and schedule for publication. Has he finished all of his work and that it is simply in the hands of the publisher? Are there any wrinkles that would be worth knowing about to assuage frustrations?
John H. Mather MD -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 7:40 pm Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: the river war Since Prof. Muller is doing it, we can expect that it will be (a) definitive, and (b) well-organized and put together.? Believe me, this is not a combination often seen in scholarly works.? I sometimes think one requirement for a PhD is to have flunked English composition. ? I am certainly not surprised at the delay.? Scholarly publishers seem to have a cavalier disregard for economics - the plebian idea that you might actually want to sell books (and therefore push to get them in the grubby hands of the Great Unwashed as rapidly as possible).? A friend of mine has a scholarly publication?(from a different publisher) which has been "due out in a couple of months" for lo these many moons.? I remember he was correcting the galleys over three years ago!? Latest reading of the runes is this coming May.? I'm not sending in my pre-order yet. ? We just have to wait and hope we haven't passed on to the Great Bookstore in the Sky before it is finally published.? I'm sure Prof. Muller is far more frustrated than any of us are. ? Jonathan Hayes -------------- Original message from "Editor/Finest Hour" <[email protected]>: -------------- > > > I don't get it. ?What is there to edit? ?You get the original ?book and you > > reprint it. ?I don't want it changed. ?I want to read the ?original text. > > ?I > > don't even care if there is a "new" ?introduction. > > If you want to read the original, buy a reading copy. If you don't > insist on a prime first edition (there were three impressions), > they're not over the moon. Mark Weber carries the widest assortment: > http://www.wscbooks.com --or check www.bookfinder.com > > The new edition was sold to a publisher BECAUSE of the scholarly > editing--and will be worth the wait. The original text will be clear > as before. Any added material, such as sections later added by > Churchill, is indicated by typeface or color. (Note: in the 1902 > abridgement, Churchill also ADDED material--this edition contains BOTH > texts. Likewise the footnotes. Professor Muller has exhaustively gone > through them all, providing amplified footnotes set out from the > originals, explaining inconsistencies in spelling, author edits and > errors (down to missing periods), and what happened to people, places > and things in the century since. E.g., the Temple of Philae, which in > Vol 2, pp 18-19 WSC recommends be sacrificed for a dam at Aswan (the > Temple was saved). This new edition--in facsimile boards, with newly > discovered drawings (including one in color) by Angus McNeill, who > illustrated the first edition--will be highly desirable in its own > right. > > The text was recopyrighted and assigned to the publisher for this > purpose. The repeated delays are not the fault of Prof. Muller but the > publisher. Squirrely publishers are like ants at a picnic. Take it > from one who knows. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ChurchillChat?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
