Anyone help with this?---A.J. Wright ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This is a rather emergency request for assistance from Project Gutenberg. Please forward it to those you feel might be able to be of assistance. Please respond as immediately as possible. We have been working on "O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather (1913) for release this Spring, hopefully in concert with a Hallmark Hall of Fame television presentation. We had begun the process of contacting the proper people at Hallmark and CBS, but were not hurrying things because our information led us to believe the broadcast would be in April or May. However, tonight I saw an announcement on CBS indicating that the date is to be next Sunday, leaving us just under seven days to set things up for what we had hoped to be a "Read More About It" spot offering free copies to those with InterNet connections via Project Gutenberg. If you know anyone who might be able to put us in contact with the people in charge of this production, please send me their names and phone numbers, so we can attempt to make the arrangements in the next five days that we had thought to make over the next few months. This is a very valuable experiment in the effort to get people to read more about the material shown on television, and any kind of positive result may lead to a series of future efforts to provide the public with free electronic copies of books adapted for television. Obviously this could include other Hallmark presentations such as the classic Mary Martin Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, the Bible, the Wizard of Oz, and other material for the whole range of family members of all ages. ===================================================== | The trend of library policy is clearly toward | the ideal of making all information available | without delay to all people. | |The Software Toolworks Illustrated Encyclopedia (TM) |(c) 1990 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. Thank you for your interest, Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any person or institution. Neither Prof Hart nor Project Gutenberg have any official contacts with the University of Illinois. Mail will be considered for release in our newsletter and notes unless otherwise requested. Email addresses: BITNET> HART@UIUCVMD INTERNET> [log in to unmask] Also as the Usenet group bit.listserv.gutnberg CompuServe: >INTERNET:[log in to unmask] Attmail: internet!vmd.cso.uiuc.edu!HART