From: Randy Andrews JUNO COM> Date: 25 sep 2002 Subject: Re: Promoting Shogi overseas (was: HABU INTERVIEW (revised)) I agree the return on investment won't be huge, but how costly would it be to produce more bi-lingual books? "Better Moves" has sold out twice now, has it not? There would seem to be a market for such books even if the target market is Japanese people wanting to learn English through shogi. As far as sending title matches overseas how costly was that? What is the benefit long-term? A book once published will ALWAYS be available to newcomers to the game (if it is kept in print!). I attended a ladies' title match game in Atlanta in 1996. Dozens of Japanese players, supporters, and newspeople traveled 12000 miles and, for what?? There was no English commentary!! What was the purpose of a trip to demonstrate shogi with no English speaking commentator? My point is that publishing a book is less costly (if not actually profitable) and provides more long term influence than an overseas demonstration game which reaches a limited audience for a brief moment in time. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.