Congratulations FN! People like you make this world a better place
On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Girish Chodankar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _/ > > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ >
