A CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
SITEO 10TH ANNIVERSARY JOURNAL
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VABILO ZA PRISPEVKE ZA ZBORNIK
OB DESETLETNICI SITEO
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To mark the 10th Anniversary of the SiteO it's founder Joe Kaufmann has arranged with the Merriam Press, a publisher specialised in WW2 military topics, to publish a journal about fortifications, compiled by SiteO members. Using digital print and internet sales enables the Merriam Press to undertake publishing publications whose commercial success may not be taken for granted, but expect authors to share both risk and eventual profit. In our case this means waving of royalties for the participating authors. Here are details from Joe's letter:   "1. SITE O is free and shall remain that way. Thus, we need no treasurer and do not have to file official papers for a tax-exempt status. The membership is made up of those who have a common interest in fortification and artillery and nothing is required of the membership in the way of obligations. For many of you, you have found that the organization has put you in contact with people around the World. Many members have also have joined the Coast Defense Study Group or the Fortress Study Group, but others have not.  In some cases, these two groups have even published articles by our members and used them to help organize tours. Since we do not have any funds - and never will, if we do put out a journal those members that want a copy will have to purchase it directly from the Publisher. (Not from the SITE O organization.)   2. The SITE O Journal will be published by Merriam Press which is a small operation, but does produce professional work.  Some of the people who have published with it in the past have now become well known authors after doing some of their first articles for Merriam's World War II magazine or books with the Merriam Press.  They included the following:  - Steve Zaloga did articles and is now well-known for his Osprey books and other publications.  - Gordon Rottman did an article and is well-known for his Osprey books.  - Thomas L. Jentz did articles and is well known for his books on German armor published by Schiffer and other companies.  - Bill Auerbach did articles and later did articles for AFV News and published a the Panzerwrecks series.  - The late Rear Admiral Kemp Tolley did articles and later published books with Naval Insititute Press.  - Hugh Page Taylor did an article and later did a series on the SS for Bender.     - Charles H Bogart did artilces and the book  Controlled Mines (still available).  - William Wolf did articles and a book on German Guided Missiles.  He has since published books with Schiffer.  - Bruce Culver did articles and later did a number of armor books for Squadron and Uwe Feist.   - General David Zabecki did two of his books and later published with two major scholarly publishers books on World War I and World War II. He also became an editor of Viet Nam Magazine. 3. Usually the Merriam Press charges his authors a setup (or formatting) and editing fee but to prepare a journal for SITE O, they will charge us nothing (especially since SITEO has no money!). Since SITE O will receive no royalties for the sale of the journal, they will be able to reduce the cost of the publication as compared to similar publications they does. The estimated cost of such a journal should be less than $20 U.S. (assuming it is 200 pages). Again, those who want copies will have to order them directly from the Publisher.   4. The articles in the Journal can be of any length and can have any number of illustrations.  Only Black & White illustrations will be used, although a few color photos may be on the cover. The articles can be mostly illustrations with little text or they can be all text. The type of articles sought are: a. Fortifications - any region and any period of time. b.     Artillery - it would be preferable for these to be on types used in fortifications or against fortifications. Otherwise, heavy - and railway artillery, would be acceptable. c. Historic events related to either fortifications or artillery.   5.    Each person contributing an article and illustrations is responsible for any required permissions.  The ownership of the articles remains with the author, in the event that he wants to re-publish it somewhere else, later. Merriam, himself, will copyright the journal, but there will be a disclaimer stating the authors are responsible for the content of their articles and retain ownership of them.     6.    Of course, I do not know if there are enough of you interested in preparing articles. You will have to contact me and let me know in a few sentences what you propose and how many pages (illustrations are normally 2 per page). If enough of you are not interested in doing articles, we will not attempt to do the project.  If too many of you should want to do articles, we (the Regional Directors and I) will select the articles and try to represent each region.  If there is enough interest, we can do a journal each year.    Those of you interested in preparing articles, please let me know in the next few weeks. Those of you who do not want to write articles, but would probably purchase a copy of the journal should also let me know. Joe Kaufmann"

Ob deseti obletnici utrdboslovne spletne mreze SiteO se je njen utanovitelj Joe Kaufmann z zalozbo dogovoril Merriam Press dogovoril za izdajo priloznostnega spletnega zbornika. Merriam Press je majhna zalozba specializirana za vojaskozgodovinske publikacije iz obdobja druge svetovne vojne. Digitalni tisk in spletna prodaja ji omogocata, da se loteva tudi komercialno tveganih izdaj in kot taka je predstavljala odskocno desko za nekatere avtorje, ki so kasneje zasloveli skozi sodelovanje z zalozniskimi velikani kot so Osprey in Naval Institute Press. Podroben seznam tgakih avtorjev najdete v Joevem pismu v levem stolpcu. Joe se je z zalozbo dogovoril, da bo dal clanom SiteO priloznost, da skozi omenjeni zbornik nagovorijo globalno publiko s svojimi prispevki o utrdbah. Od novih oziroma neuveljavljenih avtorjev Meriam Press obicajno zahteva, da z zalozbo ne delijoi le dobiclka, ampak tudi tveganje. To se izraza v dolocenem zacetnem financnem vlozku s strani avtorjev. Vendar bo to pot podprla priloznostno izdajo zbornika z opustitvijo te zahteve. To je toliko bolj dobrodoslo, ker je clanstvo v SiteO brezplacno in posledicno spletna mreza SiteO ne operira s financnimi sredstvi. S svoje strani pa se bo SiteO (oziroma njeni posamezni clani) odpovedala tantiemom od prodaje zbornika. Prav tako bodo morali, ker SiteO ne operira s financnimi sredstvi, posamezniki vkljucno s sodelujocimi avtorji, svoje izvode zbornika narocati neposredno od zaloznika. Joe Kaufmann vabi vse clane SiteO, da s svojimi prispevki sodelujejo pri omenjenem zborniku. Podrobnosti najdete v pismu Joa Kaufmanna, objavljenem v levem stolpcu.