Paros in the amazonas magazine

Outstanding!! the Amazonas magazine announced they will begin publishing in English beginning this month. Many of us are looking forward to the first issue. From what I understand they are going to translate articles from the German issues into English. We will have to see how long it will take to see the “Paro” article in our magazine

Hi guys,

I just found Amazonas in English as well.

Please say the licorice gourami feature will be in the English edition. Do you have more information on this Peter?

The of editor of AMAZONAS has replied to me already. He wrote (I translate):

“Dear Mr. Finke, since January 2012 AMAZONAS will be published in the English language, too. However, it is an edition under license. The plan is to translate the German edition and publish it two or four months later. And the american publisher decides in accordance with an editorial board which articles will be included in it. Since there are many former editions there is a rich variety of marketable themes to be selected from for the first issues. I doubt that the small licorice will be part of that. The US-colleague knows very well that many Asians are interested in Asian fish but in America the main interests are different, as you know. I try to influence it, but the Americans take their own condiderations. If this would be the only criterion, they would print on cichlids only, all the time chichlids. And catfish. I am sorry …”

(In German: Wir haben die AMAZONAS seit Januar 2012 in englischer Sprache vorliegen. Allerdings handelt es sich um eine Lizenzausgabe. Geplant ist, die deutsche Fassung ins Englische zu übersetzen und zwei oder vier Monate später zu bringen. Allerdings entscheidet der amerikanische Verleger darüber – in Absprache mit dessen Board – welche Beiträge hineinkommen. Da wir eine große Auswahl früherer Hefte haben, ist der vor allem in den ersten Ausgaben natürlich bemüht, gut verkäufliche Themen zu bringen. Ob die kleinen Luftschnapper dazu gehören, wage ich zu bezweifeln. Aber das liegt nicht in meiner Entscheidung. Der Kollege in USA weiß, dass viele Asiaten sehr interessiert sind an asiatischen Fischen, aber ein US-Amerikaner geht nach anderen Kriterien, wie Sie ja wissen.Ich versuche zu beeinflussen, aber die Amis haben ihren eigenen Kopf. Wenn es danach ginge, nur Cichliden, Cichliden, nochmals Cichliden und Welse, leider…).

Now Peter speaking again: You American friends of Parosphromenus must become active! Speak to the American editor. Mention the foundation of ALFA. Certainly, there are some communicative channels to influence the editing strategy to a certain extent. And tell them it’s more than keeping fish, it’s sustainment problems in Asia, too.

Great news on both counts. We should all make comments requesting the Paros articles on the Amazonas Facebook page. It is very active and they seem to monitor it quite closely. If enough of us do that it may tip the scale.

I hope you are able to publish an English version of the book. I’m looking forward to that!

I should have an article on Paros in Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine later this year as part of my column on labyrinth fish.
Mark

Ich kann mich Patrick nur anschließen: Hervorragend geschriebene, fesselnde Berichte sowohl für Neulinge und Paro-Interessierte als auch für Freunde, die sich mit dem Thema bereits intensiver befasst haben. Es lohnt in jedem Falle, sich ein solches Heft zu kaufen!