Alas My Book!
Usually in August I talk about the half a summer left until school starts,
encouraging those families who are tapped out and waiting for school to have
order and sanity again and applauding those who are filled with daily energy to
teach the kids family values and history and manners after saying 5 more minutes
in the ocean, lake, pond or pool. It is a good time to think about school time
scheduling more sleep for the hard of hearing child. Making plans...
I get email from the web and from my book too. Yesterday some one asked me if
my book was out of stock because Borders had said so. So I flipped over to
the A.G.Bell website to see my book in the parenting section, and it was not
there. I sent an email and received this back.
Hello Publications people at A.G. Bell.
What is the status of my book Not Deaf
ENough.
I have a new address, but would still get my mail from the previous one
anyway.
Please call me, or at least return email. If the book is out of stock, I
would like to know what you are doing. I see it is not in the on line
catalog.
If the book is going out of print, I would certainly expect the courtesy of
a phone call or letter.
Patricia Ann Morgan Candlish BA MLS |
Dear Ms. Candlish,
Thank you for your inquiry about your book, "Not Deaf Enough," and I wanted
to make sure it received a prompt response. Recently, AG Bell has taken a
number of steps to ensure that its publishing operation is aligned with
current practices in the marketplace.
One of those steps has been to identify publications to discontinue from our
inventory based on sales data, currency of content, and other related
factors. In the next few days, you will receive formal letter from AG Bell
indicating that we plan to discontinue "Not Deaf Enough" from our
catalog.
In that letter, you will receive notification about the opportunity to
purchase the remaining stock of your book at cost plus the cost of shipping.
If you are interested in making the purchase, please contact me directly.
Yours truly,
Scott Wells
Publications Sales Coordinator
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
3417 Volta Place, NW
Washington, DC 20007
www.agbell.org
email:
swells@agbell.org
phone: (202) 337-5220 ext. 128
fax: (202) 337-8314
TTY: (202) 337-5221 |
I find their reason a little bizarre because in 2002 when the book was reprinted
I wrote a pamphlet to update new material on the vast improvements in FM's with
the microlink, digital aids. My book was the first to mention FM's at
home, and my son has had a microlink since 1996. I offered a page by page
updating too, although I was told that was too expensive to undertake. That was
why I settled for a pamphlet. They never did anything with the pamphlet.
I consoled myself with the knowledge that all that information was in my web
and with more detailed explanations.
I did a lot of linking from lists to the publisher, now that work ends in
nothing. I am frustrated but also simply wondering what to do with the book
next. The copyright reverts to me when the book is out of print. There is a new
industry setting up called Publishing on Demand. New equipment makes it possible
to print and bind a whole book in minutes.
| A Review at Amazon |
| 7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
 This
is a MUST READ for parents of hard of hearing children, February 14,
2002
Reviewer: A reader
This no-nonsense book is filled with practical, useful information. I highly
recommend this book to all parents of hard of hearing children.
As the parent of two hard of hearing children, I have read my share of
books about deafness. This is one of the best.
Amazon says the book is out of print, but I checked with the publisher
...and they say they have just reprinted it and it should be available soon.
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Any Suggestions?
And so Dear Friends I ask you what you think I should do?
One possibility is to
simply put the whole book up here in the web.
Another is utilizing publishing on
demand.
A third is to ask everyone who reads this to contact A.G. Bell to
buy a copy of the book. swells@agbell.org
At least that will annoy them.
A fourth is to put the book on a CD and sell it myself. Please email me
with your suggestions
mailto:candlish@hardofhearingchildren.com
I wrote Not Deaf Enough to fill the gap on information about hard of hearing
children in libraries. I was happy that the book fit on the back of the toilet,
like Reader's Digest. My original design for the book had Reid's picture of our
family from Kindergarten. One day I was holding a wonderful woman's romance
which had a mirror on the cover. Looking at the cover, you saw yourself, so each
person who read my book would know they were the solution. "Too expensive." said
A.G. Bell.
Lucy Cuzon du Rest, my editor at A.G.Bell choose the cover from my family
photos, the tree represents the knowledge and the children are the family the
hard of hearing child grows up with, shaping his/her life.
Sales of the book help to support this web.
I have paid for my web costs out of my royalties from the book. I am on
Disability because of having Huntington's Disease. Every day I go out and
research on the net, using a computer and email. One of the benefits of having
HD is that I get very focused on what I am doing, and I am keeping my brain very
interested all the time. My math skills went phut one day, which is why I don't
carry a lot of numbers, and my talent is dealing with problems, understanding
the parameters of normalness to hard of hearingness to deafness for a family,
and I am a mom of a hard of hearing child whose parents had awareness of his
hearing loss by 6 weeks at a time when 5 years 5 months was the average age of
diagnosis of congenital profound hearing loss. My son Reid is grown up and
married. My grandson Jonathan has fluid in his ears from time to time which
affects his speech too. and I have my own blue hearing aids with microlink
and handi-mike.
So please email me if you have suggestions as to the future of my book.
PAM Candlish
1 August 2005
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