[Vision2020] Thanks to RF for the correction

[Jack Van Deventer]

Today's Idaho Statesman reports that the U of I Press claims to have been in 
the black for 6 months, after incurring $600,000 in debt in the 1990s.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/Story.asp?ID=61706 

Jack
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Jack Van Deventer
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From: "Joan Opyr" <auntiestablishment@hotmail.com>
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Sent: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:08:23 -0800
Subject: [Vision2020] Thanks to RF for the correction

> Visionaries:
> 
> I've already thanked Ron privately for his correction on the UI 
> Press's financial situation, but I thank him publicly now.  Those in 
> the know that I've spoken to have suggested that a proposal to 
> distribute UI Press books through a cooperative arrangement with WSU 
> Press would likely have addressed the lingering financial concerns.  
> Even if this proposal hadn't managed to allow the UI Press to be 
> fully self-supporting, I firmly believe that academic presses are 
> worth subsidizing.
> 
> And that's it from me today.  No more typing.  I promise.  I've 
> asked Rose to come over here and tape my fingers together.
> 
> Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
> 
> PS: Rose is walking slowly.  Fingers, do your stuff.  Ron -- are you 
> certain that the '03 figures cited in the budget report include 03's 
> UI Press total and projected income?  As I know from my time in 
> library acquisitions, outstanding book orders carry over from one 
> budget year to the next, and the UI Press had quite a few books 
> which were popular enough to have justified a second print run.
> 
> That's not tape, Rose!  That's a staple gun!  Ahhhhhh!
> 
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