I am just plodding along OCR-ing Ibn Abi Usaibia. I was doing a few pages just now after lunch, and I saw page number 254 at the foot of a page that I had just completed. So I must be approximately a quarter of the way through. A long way to go yet, of course.
An order for three signed copies of my Eusebius: Gospel Problems and Solutions has come in, which I am dealing with, and is very welcome, of course.
Nearly all the sales of the book are through Amazon, and I don’t have any stock on my floor (thank goodness). But I bought a box of 20 copies to take to the Oxford Patristics Conference back in August, and never unpacked them even. However it seems that you don’t get that many sales as such at conferences, and I brought nearly all of them back, still in the box. This was a bit depressing, but orders direct to me are currently being fulfilled from that box. It’s interesting watching the box of copies of the paperback get steadily emptier! It’s a salutary reminder that the sales are likely to be constant rather than exciting.
The book seems to be well received by those who have seen it, and the professional reviews will be interesting to see as well.
The British Library demanded a free copy under the law in the UK which requires copies to be sent to the copyright libraries on request. Recently the other five decided they wanted free copies too, drat them.
did you send a copy to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review..? that is the main online reviewer…
An interesting response came on the tc list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/textualcriticism/message/6705
Perhaps you want to answer something?
@Chris: Yes I did. Let’s hope there’s a review from them.
@Wieland: That one is too deep for me. All I did was publish the thing — such suggestions are not my specialism! But I am delighted that someone has sat down and worked that out (if it is true) because that sort of analysis is precisely why I wanted to make the complete text available.