Letters... I've got letters. 
And it's all because of shoddy work!

Letter One!

In your Jan. 30, 2001 article, you state:

"Questia wants to charge $19.95 a month for their service. That doesn't sound too imposing but $360 a year sure does. Especially when you learn that Questia excludes textbooks from their collection, so that the $360 will have to be in addition to what students must already pay for books".

Were you too angry to check your math? Try $239.40/year (to be exact), less 4 months of summer, when they probably won't need the service. I agree, it's a hefty a sum, but you can be more persuasive with accuracy.

Elizabeth

Hello Elizabeth,

(who I strongly suspect works for Questia by the very fact that she cares about accuracy of its pricing scheme, but I cannot confirm such a hunch)

Being persuasive and being accurate are (sadly) two different things. That being said, I have since updated my January 30, 2001 entry to note that currently, a year's subscription of Questia is now $150 a year!

At $150 a pop, Questia now needs 900,000 subscribers just make the up the start-up money lent by its venture capitalists. This means that Questia needs more subscribers than the New Yorker (confirmed subscription number of 813,434). Will OCLC bail out Questia too? Place your bets now!

 Letter Two!

1) ... thanks for the "obsessions" link. of all the response the site generates, it still surprises me how *little* of it has to do with oobi, so i'm always glad for any oobi attention.

Oobi means love.

2) (i don't know why i'm numbering things today) there's a typo on the same page as the oobi link ... it's "Strunk" (as in "Strunk & White").

Oops. Corrected!

3) do you really currently have no obsessions?

your pal at
deuce of clubs

I like to think that I am merely between obsessions.

Letter Three!

Um. I accidentally erased letter three. It was from Ananda who suggested that where I last mentioned the Amish, I should have referred to the Mennonites. It's been a while since I've received this email - I can't even remember what entry he was referring to.