I would just like to reiterate what Ettie wrote concerning UPP's and ECB's relative sales techniques. During the past few years, I have found myself choosing books put out by ECB mainly because I have had a chance to view them as they were sent me as coordinator. All I see of UPP's new books are pictures of their covers in their yearly catalogues and hyped-up blurbs that go with them. These simply aren't enough to help me make the important decision as to which book a class will have to use for a year (or maybe 2). In addition, I have always found ECB's reps to be more helpful and informative. David Graniewitz Jerusalem From: Ettie Dudkevitz <ettiedud@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: lit. book The ECB publishing house always sends free copies for the teachers to look over before compiling a book list. This is a good way to look over the options. Unfortunately, when I called up the UPP publishing company to send our school an sample copy, they were extremely rude on the telephone. I felt like I was being verbally attacked by one of the workers there. This kind of behavior made our school choose other book options. It is a pity since we were denied copies of any new books that came out minimizing our options. It felt very unpleasant doing business with them Ettie ************************************** ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** David Lloyd: ETNI founder & manager http://david.greenlloyd.com ***************************************