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Re: 'American Farm Tractors of the 60's, a poor quality book', revisited
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Posted by JWH on January 13, 2003 at 08:10:54 from (139.55.132.213):
In Reply to: 'American Farm Tractors of the 60's, a poor quality book', revisited posted by Dsl on January 12, 2003 at 12:57:58:
What you have to understand about most of the books published by Motorbooks is that they don't give a tinker's damn about accuracy or anything else---it's all about M-O-N-E-Y. Motorbooks has a couple of good authors---Gay Fay and Randy Leffingwell come to mind, who actually do research and do their best to be accurate. Motorbooks has a number of authors who seem to: A. Not care if their book is accurate or not, as long as it has their name on it, or: B. Don't do any research of their own, but pirate the work of people who DO research, and still manage to get it wrong. Motorbooks depends on people who don't know anything about tractors but buy tractor books for someone who's interested in them-----"Let's get this one for Uncle Harry for Christmas, look at the pretty pictures." That's the market Motorbooks depends upon.
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