Re: Albert Kahn and the Packard plant

Posted by Leeedy On 2017/1/27 21:38:03
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JW wrote:
Leeedy, I welcome the news about the publication of your book on Creative Industries. It has been a long wait since I ordered two copies from Amazon several months ago.

The story of Wright, Curtiss, Allison, GM, Ford, Boeing, United, and others is interesting and thanks for sharing your brief summary. My brother works for Sikorsky Aircraft Co. another United Technologies company now owned by Lockheed Martin. Another ownership wrinkle in the story.

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Hello and thanks for your interest... but Leeedy does not control sales or distribution. These are all matters controlled by the publisher. This is not a self-published book. By the way, if you ordered early, you will notice that you received a very deep discount in the purchase price (which means the author gets less).

And if you think a few months is a long wait... try waiting over 3 years and investing thousands of dollars and years of work... having people die while you are writing... and more. Some people were so advanced in age they had to be interviewed in hospital beds or in nursing homes. Others had to be sought out in obituary pages. Not to mention saving all this stuff since the 1950s. And... even after all of the years of work and editing, a few typos and minor errors in captions incredibly managed to sneak past several sets of eyes. But hopefully you will be more than satisfied with the end product. And you will see photos and read information never before seen anywhere in publication.

As for the companies you just mentioned, Creative Industries did work for all of them... and I do mean all of them. So unlike what many people think. Creative was not some little customizer shop in Detroit. It was a very big operation.

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