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    Advance Ordering Dictionaries 
    
    An alternative route to start helping  
    education with this priority program. 
      
    
    Individuals can advance-order this 
    improved dictionary one at a time.  School systems, government agencies, and 
    book stores can each advance order thousands of these at a time. 
    A first edition needs to 
    be about 20,000 copies of this improved dictionary to get a practical 
    enough, low enough cost per dictionary. 
    One way to get a first 
    edition finally published is if in however manner, the total advance orders 
    came to at least about 20,000 copies. 
      
    
    Individual orders from the public for 
    one book each. 
    The advance order cost 
    per dictionary will be more ordering one or two than when ordering 
    thousands.  A first edition done in this manner would have a larger 
    publishing cost per dictionary than later when there is a larger 
    production.  On the other hand as explained in the article “Emergency – This 
    Must be Published SOON,” there is a risk that if a first edition is not done 
    soon, that this will never be published.  Instead of waiting maybe for years 
    for the cost per dictionary to come down, you might do well to order now. 
    To be on the safe side, 
    increasing the cost upwards, your mailing in forty dollars ($40.00) will 
    cover the cost of buying and shipping and handling for one dictionary.  The 
    checks should be made out to Comprehension Project, Inc. and mailed to 2337 
    Harrison Street, Oakland, CA 94612.  You can write on the check "Advance 
    order for _____ (fill in number) dictionary."  That way, your check will not 
    be confused with any donations also mailed in.    
    No checks for orders of 
    dictionaries will be cashed until there is total enough advance orders to 
    pay for a complete first edition.  Then those funds would be cashed to 
    advance pay for that first edition.    
    Do not cancel this check 
    but be willing to wait months and months, even years, if it takes that long 
    to get about $265,000 in advance orders.  I can not tell you at the moment 
    exactly which dictionary would be published, and if it would have thumb 
    indexing or not, along with the new Index.  There is some possibility that a 
    dictionary company might be annoyed enough at this Website as no longer to 
    be willing to publish an edition in this manner. 
      
    
    You can order extra of these improved 
    dictionaries.    
    You can order extra 
    dictionaries to go to different family members.      You could order extra 
    dictionaries to go to the school of your choice, maybe to help some alma 
    mater schools you went to, or that are in your local neighborhood.  Here you 
    can be something of a hero to any such school, helping their education.  You 
    can be sure any school would appreciate this gift from you. 
    If a school of your choice 
    is shipped one or more of these dictionaries, a note will go with each 
    dictionary to look at this Website to learn more about this.  Your gift 
    could help a school later advance order even hundreds of these, from a later 
    printed edition.  Here is a way for you to improve education in the school(s) 
    of your choice. 
      
    
    What other ways can we add to these 
    advance orders, to arrive at a total of at least about 20,000 dictionaries? 
    
      
    
    School Systems 
    Please tell your local 
    school system, and any school system, about this Website.  You can merely 
    mail a letter or send an E-mail to the head of a school, and say something 
    like "I have discovered something that will very much help education in your 
    school.  Please look at the Website with the address of 
    www.DictionaryIndex.com" . 
    You could encourage 
    whichever school system to make an advance order of even thousands of 
    these.  This could quickly increase the number of orders for these 
    dictionaries. 
      
    
    Federal and state education departments 
    These government agencies 
    with the responsibility to help education can also make advance orders, for 
    these improved dictionaries to go to whichever schools or students they 
    choose.  You can also tell these agencies about this Website.  Just phone or 
    send them a letter or E-mail or FAX or whatever. 
      
    
    Book Sellers 
    Book stores are always on 
    the watch for books that the public would want to buy.  If you tell book 
    stores that you want to buy this improved dictionary, they will quickly 
    think "We have got to get this book on the shelves."  Once again, tell them 
    this Website address. 
      
    
    Foundations 
    You can recommend to 
    foundations that help education to look at this Website and give a 
    grant/donation to this nonprofit corporation, Comprehension Project, Inc.  A 
    foundation would usually not want to buy some of these improved dictionaries 
    for them to distribute as they choose.  Most foundations are set up only to 
    give out grants and donations. 
    But foundations can certainly help here.  A 
    foundation donating $5,000;  $10,000;  $20,000;  $40,000; etc. would 
    certainly help this nonprofit corporation get this improved dictionary to 
    the public.  Different people in the public contacting different foundations 
    all over the country, and ten or 40 foundations making donations, would 
    certainly help get this first edition published. 
      
    
    If people merely  LEARN  
    that this improved dictionary exists, most will want this in their home. 
    Merely by your helping 
    spread the word of this improved dictionary and this Website, we can get 
    this improved dictionary finally published. 
    In this whole country of 
    about 285,000,000 people, it should be fairly easy to get advance orders of 
    20,000 or more.  Basically all that is needed is for the above decision 
    makers to see this Website and then do the responsible thing. 
    Advance orders from school 
    systems, government agencies, book stores, individuals such as yourself  – – 
    plus any donations from foundations – –will speed getting this first edition 
    published. 
      
    
    Remember, you can still contact 
    dictionary companies. 
    Remember, you can still 
    send letters, E-mails, Faxes, etc. to dictionary companies asking them to 
    publish this.  See the article at the end of this Website titled "Contacting 
    Dictionary Companies."  You could include in any such letter to a dictionary 
    company any other measure you are doing to help this, for instance that you 
    mailed a note to your local school, made an advance order here, etc. 
      
    What would happen if 
    dictionary companies see that this improved dictionary is no longer a 
    "secret" and that the public is getting behind this?  What would happen is 
    that at least one dictionary company may fairly quickly decide that the time 
    has arrived to publish this.  A dictionary company may not want to be seen 
    by the public as kicking and screaming and protesting all the way against 
    helping education with a clearly improved dictionary. 
      
    
    You might also make a donation. 
    Keep in mind that you can 
    also send in a donation to Comprehension Project, Inc., where those funds 
    are not earmarked to an advance order.  You could send in a separate check 
    just made out to this nonprofit corporation, on which you might also write 
    “Donation.”  Donations can also be made by credit card.  Please turn to the 
    home page and click on “Donations” to see about that. 
    Kindly do not mail in one 
    check for instance 1/2 for advance ordering and 1/2 for donation, because 
    advance order checks will not be cashed right away.  Please mail in a 
    separate check for each.  Any check that comes in with nothing written on it 
    about “advance order” will be presumed to be for donations. 
    Donations will help pay 
    for a public relations company to get numerous magazine articles on this 
    program, as explained in “Proof of Nonprofit Status, plus Budgets.”  Any 
    donation will help get more people to see this Website and learn about this 
    fundamental requirement for education and how this improved dictionary will 
    help.  Donations will also result in more advance orders being made.  
    Donations would indirectly result in this advance edition being more likely 
    published in the first place.    
    Keep in mind those 
    advance-order checks can not be cashed until there is enough to pay for this 
    complete edition.  In the meantime those advance-order checks are just 
    sitting there not helping this program at all.  Donations even for just 
    $10.00 or $20.00, will help put this overall program into operation better 
    and faster. 
    Will you help in any of the above 
    ways to get this first edition published. 
    
    Donations and advance 
    orders will be appreciated.  Whoever you may also contact in the above lists 
    of people and organizations, your help will be appreciated.  You will 
    significantly be helping the education in this country. 
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