[PRCo] Re: Book

[Boris Cefer]

Wait, wait, wait, wait,......or help if you want it sooner.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 8:00 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Book


> Boris:
> 
> First of all I am one of the strongest American supporters of  
> learning multiple languages and I strongly lament that we do little  
> in this country to support learning other tongues, especially  
> Spanish.   However, I also recognize that your language is a minority  
> language and will very much restrict sales of the book.   I wish I  
> had the stamina to translate the original book into other languages  
> to sell it.   The most useful would have been German but since, in  
> the era when it was published, the Germans with cash were all in the  
> Federal Republic and most of those with an interest spoke or read  
> English, I didn't feel having it only in English was detrimental.
> 
> Because the Czech builders supplied most of the cars in Eastern  
> Europe, the story will be of interest in many places beside the Czech  
> Republic.   Tables don't need to be translated.   They only need  
> additional column headings in other languages to make them useful.    
> Your book would be a lot more useful it it were to be in Czech,  
> German, Russian and English.
> 
> Captions can be a simplified compared to what is standard in the U.  
> S. ... One sentence captions in multiple languages work well ... Ein  
> neues T3 wagen bei dem Rathaus in Dresden um 1943.   A new car next  
> to the City Hall in Dresden about 1943.  and the Czeck and Russian  
> equivalents.   They don't have to take as much space as I used.
> 
> PCC - The Car That Fought Back had a press run of 6,000 copies.    
> While many of the older fans have died, I would suspect that printing  
> it in English or printing it with English text beside the Czech text  
> might get you 1,000 to 2,000 additional sales.    Most of them will  
> be in Great Britain.   However, Fred Schneider will buy one if you  
> get it done before I die.  I've actually run one of those cars in  
> Daugapils, Latvia ... certainly I would want to buy it.   Russ  
> Jackson might too.
>