Geoffrey Plourde wrote: From looking at only two books published by Alphascript, "Finnish Paganism" and "Iron"; I think we could choose a much better selection to sell, at a price well below that of Alphascript. The book on Finnish Paganism lacks the article that has the best overview of the subject: [[Finnish mythology]]; while Iron lacks our articles on most methods of processing the metal, such as [[Bloomery]]. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

This won't work. The problem is that these books are not being clearly marketed as printed Wikipedia articles. So, marketing your books as up to date printed versions of Wikipedia articles isn't going to be competing with these books. I recommend doing a positive campaign where you encourage people to log onto amazon and leave helpful comments and tag and categorize books appropriately. However, I don't think this is the work of the foundation. I think some active wikipedians and wikimedians should bring this to the community. If I had more energy I would do it myself, and here is what I would do: 1) Write a blog post encouraging people to log onto Amazon and write a short, respectable, and helpful comment on the books so that consumers can understand the situation. 2) Get this blog post translated into a few languages. 3) Write an email that asks the reader to: * Pass this email on to others * Vote the story up on various news aggregator sites (Digg, etc). * Go to the page and read the blog for more details and to take part in this collaborative effort to inform consumers. 4) Send it out to a lot of people (many thousand). 5) Release a short press release about the blog and the people joining in this effort and send that out to various news sources. -Josh On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: -- I am running the Arizona Rock'n'Roll marathon with Team in Training. Help me reach my fundraising goals: http://pages.teamintraining.org/ma/pfchangs10/joshuagay