Re: DINO UPDATES

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-30 19:34:02 EST, steve.cole@genie.com writes:

>IS THERE SUCH A THING as a single publication which would have ALL
>new discoveries, theories, article synopses, and other news about
>dinos (and, preferably, JUST dinos)? Something written in more or
>less plain English (along the line of the text in Dinosaur Society
>Encyclopedia or Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. I once hoped
>that the Dinosaur Society Newsletter would be this (I joined/subscribed
>before the first issue was printed) but it turns out to be mostly
>"society news" which is of no real use or interest. The JVP is of
>course "technical" and largely "non-Dino" and not really what I'm
>looking for. Something that, if I subscribed to it, I would have known
>about the new theory (and isn't every shred of knowledge we have about
>dinos really no more than theory?) about Dravidosaurus and would have
>mentioned it in my "trying to be helpful" post on the subject.
>If there is not such a publication, I might consider creating one
>(as I own a publishing company among other things). One way to do it
>would be as a loose leaf notebook with each "issue" including a few
>new or replacement pages for those genera that need it and a series
>of "update" pages that would add extra data to other pages that don't
>really need wholesale replacement. You'd buy "the book" and then
>"subscribe" to the update and could continually update your book.

When I restart _Archosaurian Articulations_ later this year, it will be the
kind of publication you want. Not quite a looseleaf notebook (I've toyed with
the format, but packaging would be a nightmare), but a nice 12-page
monthly(?) newsletter with all the new dinosaur and other archosaur news
every month. I was almost there once, then got sidetracked by Dinamation and
other stuff. Now the "other stuff" is gone.