Smart Book Ltd
                                            12-3-135 Zaharova str
                                             115569 Moscow Russia

                                     tel (095) 390 8452, 433 8477

(Draft proposal and motivation of contract for preparing  user's  texts in
form of Smart Book Diskettes)

Dear Sir,

Please find on the next page  the  prospect  of  our  company  and
explanations  what  a product the Smart Electronic Book diskettes are. You
may also ask for DEMO diskette of Smart  Electronic  Book  at  our
representative  Mr  Jim Salter (the address is below).  It is our hope
that such diskettes with various  texts  and  language  pairs  may  be
useful  as  part of any language training.  At the moment 3 samples of
classical Russian prose are available ($20 for each):

    "The Queen of Spade" by A.Pushkin;
    "The White Poodle" by A.Kuprin;
    "Kashtanka" by A.Chekhov.

These texts have universal value and that is why  we  have  chosen them 
first.  But  they  are  useful for rather experience students of Russian.

To meet the needs and specifics of the training  courses  in  your office, 
we are ready to prepare in form of the Smart Electronic Books the texts
you would like to order.  To start with it may be any  texts in  Russian 
(and  its  translation  in  English) 50-100 Kb long.  The possible terms
are as follows.  The charge about $2000 for  each  text with your
unlimited right to copy,  sell and distribute diskettes,  or $10,000 with
your exclusive write to sell and distribute.  These terms are  temporary
and may be changed during negotiations.  We may discuss your orders also
for other language pairs.

Perhaps you will find useful to receive regularly some  review  of Russian 
periodicals in form of Smart Book Diskettes.  For example the shortened
month review of "Moscow News" weekly  could  be  such  Smart Book
Periodical.

At the moment our interests in USA are represented by

    Mr Jim Salter, president of
    COLOR QUICK professional printing
    770 Walnut St, Macon, GA 31201
    tel 745 5501, fax 742 0121

Thank you for the attention to our proposal.

    Sincerely yours
    Alexander Gofen
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                      Smart Book Ltd
        12-3-135 Zaharova Str, Moscow 115569, Russia
 Representitives: Alexander Gofen, tel. (095) 433 8477, 390 8452
     Mr. Nickolai Anatcky, E-mail: nick@ipian15.ipian.msk.su

The firm produces THE SMART ELECTRONIC BOOKS, i.e.  specially packed
bilingual texts of well-known fiction written on diskettes for IBM PC. 
The purpose is to make the process of reading and words learning as easy
as possible.  Such Electronic Books reading may be a part of any language
teaching process.

THE SMART ELECTRONIC BOOKS make the studying of foreign languages easy and
pleasant.  When a student is reading such books either tiresome searching
in the dictionary or difficult selecting of the convenient meaning from
the different usages is no more necessary. (Searching a word in Russian
dictionary may be especially difficult for foreigners who doesn't know
different forms of the same word).

While reading the user can:
 - look the context-dependent translation for every unknown word;
 - add the larger context if needed;
 - scroll the text in the native or foreign language, in the
   traditional or in special format, when any text line on the
   screen represents a closed phrase or logically finished part
   of it;
 - collect unknown words in files for farther studying.

This system does not aim to provide for the reader all possible usages for
an unknown word.  Instead the reader has as a prompt just that single
meaning that is actual for the context (it is the reason why the reading
process is so easy).  Nevertheless if the full article of the dictionary
entry point is also needed, the user may purchase one of electronic
dictionaries systems available on the market and use both systems
concurrently.

Suppose, some resident program providing access to full enough bilingual
dictionary is loaded.  Running the SMART BOOK after it the user can call
also the full article from this dictionary for any unknown word and
therefore learn the ALL usages of this word or expression.  The same way
if a program for pronouncing words highlighted on the screen through the
internal speaker is available, it adds the option to make the prompt
sounding.

Some future electronic resident dictionaries based on CD ROM technology may
incloud many pictures and animation.  Then the Smart Book reading process
also will provide prompts with video clips.

Such systems are much more expensive in comparison with the Smart Books. 
However the user should purchase them only once for many purposes and for
different Smart Books.  The advantage of the Smart Book is possibility of
easy link with the mentioned perspective commercial systems.

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