Interpreter Wanted

[Lang Thompson]

>I think that before individuals embark on  projects involving
>translation or interpreting they budget accordingly. This throwing
>someone a bone is appalling. If you know you are going to need
>someone's expertise have the money up front. 


He is offering the money up front, is honest about what it is and sounds
like he did budget accordingly.  It's just that budgets for this sort of
book--actually for books in general--are generally quite small and a large
part of it is probably coming out of the author's own pocket.  Many
publishers won't even pay for the index.  Now if it was likely that a
Kurosawa biography would hit the best-seller list and be optioned for a
major motion picture release then it may be different but in all liklihood
the book will probably struggle to stay in print (which is where
KineJapan-ers come in), though Faber has an admirable dedication to film
books.  

LT