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Old 21-06-2008, 02:15 PM
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Thanks for that but I have my own free copy of "The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies" as being one of the contributors to the book.

Interestingly all the contributors have a biography and a picture of themselves in the book except for yours truly.

The US publishers refused to accept my picture or the original biography. It wasn't an obscene picture and I certainly don't consider myself hideous enough to affect sales of the book. They rewrote the biography by adding facts they obtained off the Internet.

I wasn't terribly impressed.

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Steven
Why wouldn't they accept your picture or bio??!!! Sounds a bit crazy to me. And, what "facts" could they obtain off the internet?? Better getting the low down straight from the source than rely on hearsay.
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