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OK, some questions that could do to be answered here...
When was Willard Price editor of "Survey" and "World Outlook" magazine? It seems that Drew University have microfilms of these during a period that probably included his editorship: http://www.depts.drew.edu/lib/uma_film.html
Also, when did he graduate from Columbia? There's not much on-line there in the way of graduation roll stuff, but probably someone who was there could find out that sort of information.
I guess this really needs me to read his autobiographies, since my researching to this point has at least found that he wrote a couple!
Obviously this article could do to be a _lot_ better than it is at present. I put it in, however, because there does not seem to be anything much on this (very interesting) chap available on-line. {from User:Karora. Niteowlneils 12:08, 10 September 2005 (UTC)}
During October 2006, the Price family of Holden, Massachussetts, entered into an agreement to sell the copyrights and related legal rights in the 14 adventure series titles (plus the right to use the name WILLARD PRICE) to London-based literary brand owner and investor, Fleming Literary Management LLP (see www.flemingliterary.com ). Fleming Literary is reinvigorating the brand, including through the planned publication of new book # 15 in the series (to be co-written with a new writer but branded with WILLARD PRICE), and the development of television and or film(s) based on the series. Fleming Literary's associated company, Ian Fleming Publications Limited, owns publishing rights to writer Ian Fleming's works including James Bond 007.
There's an Amazon preview for Underwater Adventure, so I'll use that book for talking points about this one. Looking at the first paragraphs suggests these books are not of high literary quality. The third sentence/paragraph abruptly changes tense, and in fact seems as if it might be "cut-and-pasted" from another book. Vocabulary such as "great fish" seems peculiar and inept. "Doctor of Science" is spelled "doctor of science". A few pages on, the word "snorkel" is described as coming from German "schnorkel": "Our word is the same, only simplified." What? Then as an example of inept writing about a diving snorkel "...the snorkel rose out of the sea like the head of a sea serpent." Um, it looks like some unspecified fantasy serpent that's swimming sideways or backward?
From the three enthusiastic Amazon reviews apparently this book was compelling to encourage new readers, and it has been reprinted recently, but there doesn't seem to be any significant literary value. Is it worth describing each 130 page book separately? My vote is not. Leptus Froggi ( talk) 19:59, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Having just been tagged for notability in an article I wrote by an author with a major section in the Hugo award-winning "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" ... about one of the books that was his major work ... I'd say in contrast the whole Adventure series is non-notable. Nothing, except perhaps point 5 at in WP:BK seems close to supporting their notability. Leptus Froggi ( talk) 05:34, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
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OK, some questions that could do to be answered here...
When was Willard Price editor of "Survey" and "World Outlook" magazine? It seems that Drew University have microfilms of these during a period that probably included his editorship: http://www.depts.drew.edu/lib/uma_film.html
Also, when did he graduate from Columbia? There's not much on-line there in the way of graduation roll stuff, but probably someone who was there could find out that sort of information.
I guess this really needs me to read his autobiographies, since my researching to this point has at least found that he wrote a couple!
Obviously this article could do to be a _lot_ better than it is at present. I put it in, however, because there does not seem to be anything much on this (very interesting) chap available on-line. {from User:Karora. Niteowlneils 12:08, 10 September 2005 (UTC)}
During October 2006, the Price family of Holden, Massachussetts, entered into an agreement to sell the copyrights and related legal rights in the 14 adventure series titles (plus the right to use the name WILLARD PRICE) to London-based literary brand owner and investor, Fleming Literary Management LLP (see www.flemingliterary.com ). Fleming Literary is reinvigorating the brand, including through the planned publication of new book # 15 in the series (to be co-written with a new writer but branded with WILLARD PRICE), and the development of television and or film(s) based on the series. Fleming Literary's associated company, Ian Fleming Publications Limited, owns publishing rights to writer Ian Fleming's works including James Bond 007.
There's an Amazon preview for Underwater Adventure, so I'll use that book for talking points about this one. Looking at the first paragraphs suggests these books are not of high literary quality. The third sentence/paragraph abruptly changes tense, and in fact seems as if it might be "cut-and-pasted" from another book. Vocabulary such as "great fish" seems peculiar and inept. "Doctor of Science" is spelled "doctor of science". A few pages on, the word "snorkel" is described as coming from German "schnorkel": "Our word is the same, only simplified." What? Then as an example of inept writing about a diving snorkel "...the snorkel rose out of the sea like the head of a sea serpent." Um, it looks like some unspecified fantasy serpent that's swimming sideways or backward?
From the three enthusiastic Amazon reviews apparently this book was compelling to encourage new readers, and it has been reprinted recently, but there doesn't seem to be any significant literary value. Is it worth describing each 130 page book separately? My vote is not. Leptus Froggi ( talk) 19:59, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Having just been tagged for notability in an article I wrote by an author with a major section in the Hugo award-winning "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" ... about one of the books that was his major work ... I'd say in contrast the whole Adventure series is non-notable. Nothing, except perhaps point 5 at in WP:BK seems close to supporting their notability. Leptus Froggi ( talk) 05:34, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Comments — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bstrides ( talk • contribs) 11:49, 16 November 2015 (UTC)