from mediev-l, a medieval history email list for amateur and professional historians, also sent to Holt Rinehart and Winston, by Paul Halsall, the editor of Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebooks Project.
Apparently you are willing to change testbooks in order to appeal to fundamenatlist Christians.
Fair enough - it's your right to publish what you want.
However, if you cave, I will try to iniatiate a campaign among humanities professors to boycott your books on the basis that you give in to pressure from religious fanatics. I run a very big history website, and will promote the boycott there: we simply cannot trust publishers who are so craven.
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Date: 2004-11-06 12:27 pm (UTC)Apparently you are willing to change testbooks in order to appeal to fundamenatlist Christians.
Fair enough - it's your right to publish what you want.
However, if you cave, I will try to iniatiate a campaign among humanities professors to boycott your books on the basis that you give in to pressure from religious fanatics. I run a very big history website, and will promote the boycott there: we simply cannot trust publishers who are so craven.
needs a spellcheck, but bravo.