RE: old issues of JPTS

Dear Ven. Nyanatusita,

Thanks for that information. I was not aware of it.

Regards
Mark


>-----Original Message-----
>From: palistudy@yahoogroups.com [mailto:palistudy@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
>Nyanatusita
>Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:29 AM
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [palistudy] old issues of JPTS
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>Dear Mark,
>
>I met Dr Rupert Gethin, the president of the PTS, here a few months ago
>and he told me that it was the PTS's intention to put the old JPTS
>issues online for free rather than reprinting them. He said that it is
>too expensive to reprint them and that the interest is too limited.
>
>Regards,
>               Bh. Nyanatusita
>
>
>
>Mark Allon wrote:
>>
>> Dear members,
>>
>> Although this is an incredibly useful resource, it is very threatening
>> to the PTS, a non-profit organization, and to their mission to publish
>> Pali scholarship. The complete set of the JPTS is £530
>> (http://www.palitext.com/ <http://www.palitext.com/>) = approx.
>> US$750. The availability of the pdfs represents a huge loss in revenue
>> to the PTS. If we want to see the PTS's good work continue, then one
>> must also buy the print version (as Jim has done) or donate a
>> reasonable proportion of this cost to the PTS.
>>
>> Regards
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> Dr Mark Allon
>> Chair, Department of Indian Subcontinental Studies
>> University of Sydney
>> Brennan MacCallum Building A18
>> Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
>> Phone 02-93513891; fax 02-93512319
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: palistudy@yahoogroups.com <mailto:palistudy%40yahoogroups.com>
>> [mailto:palistudy@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:palistudy%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of Jim
>> >Anderson
>> >Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:37 AM
>> >To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com <mailto:palistudy%40yahoogroups.com>
>> >Subject: [palistudy] old issues of JPTS
>> >
>> >Dear members,
>> >
>> >Many of the old issues of the Journal of the Pali Text Society are now
>> >available online for free.
>> >
>> >Here's a list of issues I have been able to download so far:
>> >
>> >1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1887, 1888, 1889-90 1894-96, 1897-1901, 1904-05,
>> >1906-07, 1908, 1909, 1915-16, 1917-19.
>> >
>> >The following issues don't seem to be yet available: 1886, 1891-3,
>> 1902-3,
>> >1910-12, 1913-14, 1920-23, 1924-27.
>> >
>> >The next issue after 1927 is 1981 which certainly won't be available for
>> >download for a very long time.
>> >
>> >I downloaded most of these journals from archive.org and a couple from
>> >books.google.com. For locating them in archive.org use the search string:
>> >Journal of the Pali Text Society AND 1882 -- to give an example.
>> >
>> >I almost have the complete hardbound set of the Journals (except
>> vols. 24,
>> >25, 26 which I will order next year)
>> >
>> >Best wishes,
>> >Jim
>> >
>> >
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