Dear All:

In case you did not already receive this offer from Prof. Mark Monmonier.

Matthew Edney

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> From: Mark Monmonier <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Directory of Cartographic Inventors
> Date: March 10, 2018 at 10:21:01 AM EST
> To: Matthew Edney <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> Dear Matthew,
>  
> In accord with the dissemination plan for my recent NSF grant on cartographic inventors/inventions, I am offering your library/map collection, gratis, a copy of A Directory of Cartographic Inventors, co-written with four SU students and published through Amazon CreateSpace. If you are willing to accept a copy of this 163-page softbound book, and place it on the map collection reference shelf, or in some other location suitably accessible to library users, please send me the following information for the Amazon order form.
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> Dept name | ATTN: your name [1 line]
> Library Name [1 line]
> Address [1 line]
> City, State, Zip Code
> Phone number [Amazon’s courier needs this]
>  
> Because I have edited but not rewritten the students’ essays, the language might seem a bit clunky but it’s clear nonetheless. I paid a professional copy editor to give it a once-over and also prepare the index. I did the layout myself, included the first page of each featured inventor’s patent, and inserted additional images so that each entry begins on a right-hand/odd-number page.
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> In a way, this is an experiment in the self-publishing of a work that few if any conventional publishers would touch. It has the lowest price Amazon would allow, for a near-zero royalty. My plan is to spend down the grant by providing free copies to libraries and map collections that ask for them. (And by making good use of Amazon Prime because there’s no cost for 2-day shipping.) Asking is important because I am leery of libraries that as a matter of policy do not add unsolicited material to their collection—little point in spending NSF money on something that will go to the book-sale or the recycle bin.
>  
> So let me make two requests: (1) Please use the five-line format above to ask for a copy for your reference shelf. (2) And please forward this email to other map libraries, map collections, map librarians, or relevant listservs.
>  
> All best,
> Mark
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> Mark Monmonier | Distinguished Professor | Geography | Maxwell SoC&PA
> 144 Eggers | SU | Syracuse, NY 13244-1020 | USA | (+1) 315.443.5641
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> Advance announcement for HtL3e, and its cool, nicely freshened cover:
> http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo27400568.html <http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo27400568.html>

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Matthew Edney

Osher Professor in the History of Cartography	http://www.oshermaps.org/edney
University of Southern Maine					http://usm.maine.edu

Director, History of Cartography Project (UW)	http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart