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     </para>
 
     <para>
-      This book is based on a database with source date from words and
-      terms collected in the first half of 1990, organized and funded
-      by Samisk videregående skole og reindriftsskole, with Svein Lund
-      as editor in cooperation with others.  The same database was the
-      source of the book «Mekanihkkársánit : Mekanikerord = Mekaanisen
-      alan sanasto = Mechanic's words» (ISBN 82-7954-042-3, 1999).
-      Sámi Parliament of Norway and Svein Lund has permitted Petter
-      Reinholdtsen to publish the material with an Creative Commons
-      license CC-BY 4.0.
+      This book is based on a database with source date from terms
+      collected in the first half of 1990, organized and funded by
+      Samisk videregående skole og reindriftsskole, by editor Svein
+      Lund and several contributors.  The same database was the source
+      of the book <quote>Mekanihkkársánit : Mekanikerord = Mekaanisen
+      alan sanasto = Mechanic's words</quote> (ISBN 82-7954-042-3,
+      1999).  Sámi Parliament of Norway and Svein Lund has permitted
+      Petter Reinholdtsen to publish the material with an Creative
+      Commons license CC-BY 4.0.
     </para>
 
     <para>
-      Please let us know if you find any errors or omissions.
+      Buy both paper and electronic edition directly from
+      <ulink url="https://lulu.com/" />.
     </para>
 
   </legalnotice>
   <isbn>
     <para>
-      ISBN 978-82-93828-05-1 (hard), 978-82-93828-06-8 (soft),
-      978-82-93828-07-5 (epub).
+      ISBN 978-82-93828-06-8 (hardcover) and 978-82-93828-07-5 (epub).
     </para>
   </isbn>
   <abstract>
     <para>
-      Boken inneholder rundt 1200 oppslagsord med forklaring og
-      tilsvarende ord på andre språk.
+      The book contains about 1200 dictionary entries with
+      translations into other languages.  The PDF and paper edition
+      contain a register with words in every language to make it easy
+      to find the relevant dictionary entry.
     </para>
+
     <para>
-      Ordlisten har individuelle oppslagsord, oversettelser og
-      forklaring.  I PDF og papirutgave kan alle språkenes ordvalg slås
-      opp i registeret for å finne aktuelt oppslagsord.
+      The words for different languages are marked using language
+      codes according to ISO-639-1: (en) English, (nb) Norwegian
+      Bokmål, (nn) Norwegian Nynorsk, (se) Northern Sami, (sv) Swedish
+      and (fi) Finnish.
     </para>
 
     <para>
-      Ordene på ulike språk er markert med språkkoder i tråd med
-      ISO-639-1: (en) Engelsk, (nb) Norsk bokmål, (se) Nordsamisk, (se)
-      Svensk og (fi) Finsk.
+      The book is based on a Filemaker Pro database with source data
+      from words and terms collected in the first half of the 1990
+      decade.  This work was organized from Samisk videregående skole
+      og reindriftsskole and funded by the same school as well as
+      Samisk utdanningsråd, Nordisk kulturråd and Letterstedtska
+      föreningen.  The same database was the source of the book
+      <quote>Mekanihkkársánit : Mekanikerord = Mekaanisen alan sanasto
+      = Mechanic's words</quote> (ISBN 82-7954-042-3, 1999).  The
+      editor of the database and book was Svein Lund, who reports that
+      the other contributors were Aimo Aikio, Lars Erik Bønå, Nils
+      Øivind Helander, Klemet I. Hætta, Nils Morten Hætta, Biret
+      Kallio, Øyvind Moeng, Rolf Olsen, Aage Olsen, Anders Oskal,
+      Inger-marie Oskal, Arne Johan Turi, Mai Britt Utsi, Niilo
+      Vuomajoki and Per Aarseth.
     </para>
   </abstract>
 </bookinfo>