On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Greg Newby wrote:
You are envisioning frustrated scholars and others who care about such things. Those are not our target audience, and never have been. While it's likely that some such scholars have "turned off" to PG, I can tell you that there are close to zero requests for such pedigree information that come in on a monthly basis.
Well, yes, because scholars AREN'T using PG, that's why you don't get any requests. At DP, we're processing things that no one but a scholar will ever read. Ever. I'm proofreading one of Canon Sells' books about Islam. No one who is interested in current, up-to-date information is going to read this book. It's antiquated. However, some scholar working on a book re "history of Western perceptions of Islam" might be thrilled to get access to an old out-of-print work. If he/she feels the work is reliable, that is. If you don't want to cater to scholars, you're throwing away much of DP's work. -- Karen Lofstrom {Zora on DP}