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Editor's Report
Readers Respond In
Large Numbers To Book Giveaway
The Epidemiology
Monitor received an enthusiastic response to its offer to give away
free of charge approximately six dozen epidemiology related books that
were part of a collection amassed by the Epi Monitor. Readers were
invited to list one to three titles they were interested in. An
estimated 125 persons made approximately 300 requests for titles and
we distributed all six dozen books to the first readers who requested
the free title in email requests sent to us. Readers received the free
book if they were the first to request it whether it was their first,
second, or third choice. In this way we assured that as many different
persons as possible received a book.
All books were sent to
readers in the US before Christmas at the book mailing rate which
should reach all recipients by late December or early January. Books
were sent to 24 different states with California, Maryland, and New
York receiving 4-6 books in each of those states and the remaining
states received a smaller number or a single free book.
The Epidemiology
Monitor received many expressions of gratitude for the book giveaway
and we in turn were grateful to our readers for giving these books
another home and extending their useful life.
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