It's been wonderful work. Congrats and thanks for making me part of this journey.
Girish Sent from my iPad > On 02-Jul-2016, at 1:20 AM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * > فريدريك نورونيا <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Reader, > > Permit me to share a personal message as well as my deep feelings of > gratitude, through this network today. > > The alternative book publishing venture Goa,1556 (named after the arrival > of the first movable type printing press in Asia in this region sometime in > that year) enters its tenth anniversary year today. > > It is perhaps not a coincidence that for quite some time before it was set > up, we on Goanet had been off and on discussing Goa books, feting authors > who had recently published titles, and generally grumbling here as to how > difficult it was to get published or buy Goa-related books at that time. > > On a monsoon-struck July 1 in 2007, Goa,1556 took the hint and got going. > > Though one hardly expected it then, it kept growing. > > We just completed our 100th title in the past few months. Thanks to the > support of our readers, authors, artist, editors, printers, partner > organisations, supporters, reviewers, collaborative bookshops, even > volunteers who took it on themselves to take up the tough job of lugging > across heavy paper and hawk our books in distant parts of the globe (hard > work for little returns), and so many others. > > With the active involvement of bibliophiles, in Goa and also elsewhere, the > Goa-Book-Club [http://groups.google.com/group/goa-book-club] was launched. > Both online and with real-world meetings. Its aim has been focussing > specially on Goa-related (including diaspora) books. > > Overall, thanks to everyone's support and efforts, I think Goa,1556 has, or > will in time, earn its place at least as a footnote in the history of > publishing of Goa. Specially if we can keep on keeping on. > > Experiments such as these, in my (not unbiased) view, help to make > publishing accessible in 'small markets' like Goa. It perhaps also to make > books affordable by holding down prices of our printed books. Of course we > have our shortcomings too, and are painfully aware about that. For > instance, delays, or our inability to manage to bring out a few books that > come our way because of limitations on our part.) > > This year, 2016-2017, is being observed as Goa,1556's tenth anniversary > year. As a small thank you to everyone out there, we would like to > re/create and share with anyone interested maybe around ten ebooks during > the coming year. To get your copies of the ebooks as and when released -- > two to three should be out in the next few days -- please send an email to > [email protected] with GOA,1556 EBOOKS as your subjectline. I'd be > grateful if you could let me know, in the email, what kind of Goa-related > books you'd like to see happen. > > All these ebooks will be made available free and unpriced, to whoever asks > for them. But if you want to complete the cycle of giving, then I request > you to buy or gift to someone else, any Goa-related book (even if it is not > one published by Goa,1556) and promote this sector which needs your support. > > Thanks and good wishes, > > Frederick Noronha > Goa,1556 > http://goa1556.in > [Currently under maintenance though] > -- > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > _/ > _/ Frederick Noronha | http://about.me/noronhafrederick | http://goa1556.in > _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Facebook: fredericknoronha > _/ Goa,1556 CC shared audio content https://archive.org/details/goa1556 > _/ > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
