On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:31 +0000, Charles Matthews wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
2009/12/21 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
Draft, then.
Worth noting: "It's A Wonderful Life" only became a popular Christmas movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well worth mentioning - people who read will certainly take the opportunity to push his works. Send to the more literary publications?
Well, if you wanted Ford Madox Ford in, you'd mention "The Fifth Queen", on the grounds that many more people could tell you who Henry VIII's fifth queen was than are interested in the "unreliable narrator".
I see Brian has started [[Press releases/Public domain day]] on the WMUK wiki. So we can get into detail there. Yes, this might be an upmarket topic: it would be easy to email the London Review of Books, New Statesman, The Spectator. and I'll volunteer to do that once we're good to go. I wasn't so sure at first glance how to email the right person at The Economist, but well worth the effort (huge circulation). The Guardian seems to be shuffling things around and online.
There is, as you point out, a great opportunity to put WMUK before a highbrow audience. Yes, Wikibooks should be alerted to, and invited to contribute to, any release on this. However, the idea of audiobooks, or even single poems from Yeats, was what caught my eye. I have a sneaking suspicion there's one or two UK celebs could be persuaded to records stuff for Commons; getting a "featured audio" on Wikipedia would stroke their egos. Stephen Fry reading his favourite Yeats poem anyone?