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Those of you who or are members of our already received this, but for those who haven’t, here’s this week’s newsletter, which also serves as the kickoff for our first ever fundraising campaign.

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There was such a great response to last weekÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s giveaway of Jerzy PilchÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s The Mighty Angel that weÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™re definitely going to do this on a regular basis . . . Copies of the book (and congratulatory e-mails) went out to the winners yesterdayÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”for everyone else, copies are available at better bookstores everywhere, or via . (And yes, the book is even prettier in real life . . .)

This week, weÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™d like to do two things:

First off, IÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™d also like to officially kick off our first $10 fundraising campaign. As a nonprofit press (that does a lot of non-revenue generating activity like the Best Translated Book Award, , and, well, publishing translations), we have to rely on grants and individual donations to keep doing what weÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™re doingÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”making great works of world literature available to readers like you (and me).

Obviously, the more money raised via this campaign, the more weÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™ll be able to offer, but seeing as this is our first ever online fundraising effort, the real goal is to demonstrate a broad base of support for Open Letter and Three Percent. So, although weÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™re more than happy to accept gifts of any level, weÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™re only asking for $10. ItÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s an affordable amount that adds up to a very significant total, and any show of support for what we do canÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™t be overestimated.

To contributeÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”and I really hope you willÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”simply take two minutes to fill out the .

Second, our new fall/winter 2009 catalog is now available ) with lots of interesting books that IÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™ll be featuring on Three Percent in the near future and giving away through this newsletter.

Thanks in advance, and next week weÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™ll be back to our regularly scheduled newsletter. (Unless no one contributes. Kidding, kidding.)

Best,

Chad