From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:23:35 +0000

>Your analogy breaks down, Rick, because the book that originated as a
>dissertation does not really list its "ingredients" anywhere.  There
>is no explanation to be found in any such book as to exactly what
>revisions were made to turn the dissertation into a book.

You're distorting my analogy, Sandy. No one is asking publishers to
provide a list of revisions made to their dissertation-based books. What
YBP is asking Tony's press to do is provide some very basic information
about their books -- are they conference monographs, are they reprints,
are they revised dissertations, etc. Tony is objecting on the basis that
providing such information will tend to drive down sales.

Am I really the only one to whom this response seems patently perverse?
Tony is making it seem as though the more people know about PSUP's
books, the less likely they are to buy them.

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Rick Anderson
Interim Dean, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
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