FAQs - more musings

heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu
Fri Jul 27 13:40:49 UTC 2001


--- In HP4GU-FAQ at y..., Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at s...> 
wrote:
> TO REVISIT AN OLD TOPIC: you remember that we discussed the 
possibility
> of making the FAQs into a book, with proceeds going to charity?  I 
can't
> for the life of me think why anyone would want to *buy* it in 
printed
> form when all they'd need to do is go to the FAQ website.  BUT, it 
does
> gall me to see the spate of books that now seem to be coming on the
> market, and our information is SO much better & more complete.  I 
just
> read David Colbert's "The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter."  While 
it is
> tons better than the Schaefer book, it's not nearly so good as our
> information.  For example, he seems to be confused about the Goblet 
of
> Fire -- he thinks it's the same thing as the Triwizard Cup.  [It's 
*not*
> is it?  

Penny- I know you probably know more about the self-publishing 
industry than any of us - or we can ask Peg Kerr if she has any 
thoughts on the matter (or contacts that we can exploit, especially 
if she *is* interested in letting us use her Deadly Sins eassays)






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