>You have two friends with a publishing company? > >Perhaps they'd be interested with the Hobbit in Welsh. Perhaps, but they'd have to be guaranteed a certain level of sales. Far too many little publishers have gone to the wall, not because the books they published were not in demand, but because people took them without paying. It's hard to explain this, or even (for me) to understand this. Some months ago, another friend of mine (a small publisher, doing, so I thought, reasonably well) was almost in tears on the 'phone to me as he described how he walked into one big university to find TWENTY PHOTOCOPIES of one of his smaller books on a table, for distribution to undergrads. Seems it happens every year this arrogant academic decides to make some big corporation's shareholders (in this case, Xerox) richer, putting an innocent minority publisher, who cannot afford the legal costs of suing him, out of business! NOT the fault of Xerox Corporation, but should it happen someone offers you an illegal copy of a whole book (nobody minds a few sample pages) or even a whole chapter from some book published by a minority press who may have invested more money in doing it than they could afford, please be strong enough to resist the temptation. Someone who buys a book makes it likely the publisher will survive long enough, given half a chance, to publish more of the same. Someone who illegally copies it is no lover of the community whose literature it contains. mg MGUNN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE