From today's Publisher's Lunch newsletter:
Helping Hands
John Grisham is donating $5 million to create the Rebuild the Coast Fund Organization to help uninsured people from Mississippi (where he has ahome, in Oxford) rebuild homes and buinesses. He commented: "We don't normally publicize gifts. It's something we keep extremely private. But in these very, very rare circumstances -- this tragic time -- we hope the gift will get some attention and inspire other people to contribute money and help our fellow Mississippians on the Gulf Coast."
On Friday, Scholastic announced a $100,000 cash donation and indicated: "Scholastic Education and Scholastic Library Publishing divisions will make in-kind donations of books and other curriculum materials to local area schools receiving displaced students. The Company will work closely with the state departments of education in the affected region to assess their immediate and long-term needs for educational materials that will be so important in helping restore normalcy to children's lives."
Scholastic also plans to help coordinate "school-based initiatives that will result in extensive donations of books during the long recovery andrebuilding effort ahead. "
We have heard from at least a few people hoping to help channel and/ororganize efforts within the publishing community to contribute books as and where needed--from shelters to currently overburdened schools takingin extra students to libraries wiped out in the devastated areas. If you have firm information about established relief agencies looking for and/or ready to accept and process book donations or other actionable leads, or companies and publishing organizations standing ready to donate, please let us know at info@publishersmarketplace.com so that we can recirculate.
Tangentially, the AP notes online demand at Amazon for John M. Barrys' book RISING TIDE: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America--about an earlier flood that claimed 1,000 lives and displaced nearly a million people. Simon & Schuster says they are reprinting 10,000 copies of the paperback.
Short Grisham release
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AP/Grisham
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Scholastic release
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AP/Barrys
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005
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This is a bad idea. We shouldn't rebuild the flooded areas. The whole concepts of levees and pumping out the water is bad. We shouldn't be building cities below sea level. It is too dangerous and too energy intensive. This is the opportunity to abandon the areas that are flood prone and build more rationally. Yes, that is a very unpopular idea, but it is more logical and realistic than rebuilding. Best to spend the 10's of billions of dollars relocating people to better places. Then we can avoid this sort of disaster in the future.
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