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Re: New Book on Ssyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, April 9 2009, 21:52:21 (CEST)
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Cambria Press is another of those pay-to-print outfits. They try to pretend otherwise by claiming "peer review", but that's a dodge. They can honestly, though, immorally, claim to find a "peer" for you who will "review" your manuscript...but a peer to Aprim is another fool like Aprim. They also claim that prospective authors don't have to pay any money..but that's a lie too. You may not have to pay them directly from your own pocket before they print your "book"...you just have to get a certain number of people, friends and cousins, to promise to buy the book....usually by depositing a check ahead of time...if you get enough "buyers", they'll print...if not, then YOU pay. And the books are expensive.

People get their poems printed in "anthologies" the same way...they just have to agree to buy a certain number of copies ahead of time...you can call them "sales" if you want to, but it's just clever marketing for the same old dismal practice.

All of this means that regardless of what kind of man or scholar Aboona is, it's still true that no real publisher would bother...and no scholars in the field would pass on such private "books".

These books are no different than Aprim's, made up of the accumulated prejudices of people without any claim to knowledge beyond what they liked hearing.

As Dr Joseph says, a scholar is one who is well versed in all the extant material having to do with his topic. Aprim and Aboona and the rest of them only read what suits them....and lift things out of context while ignoring all the material which contradicts them.

This book is another embarrassment....no matter how pleasant it reads.



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