From: John English <je@bton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: New Books on Ada
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:18:16 +0000
Date: 2001-03-15T10:17:43+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AB096E8.389994F1@bton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 98oirs$a70$1@nh.pace.co.uk
Marin David Condic wrote:
>
> I have no clue as to how much money textbooks of this sort make for the
> authors. I've heard that quite often the $$$ value of publishing a technical
> (college course level) book is pretty small.
Yup; just over �1 a copy, which for an Ada book translates into a few
hundred pounds a year.
> It might be the sort of thing
> that would be more valuable from a "promotional" point of view if it were
> freely available as a download from the Internet.
Prentice Hall (now Pearson) have taken my book out of print and are
returning the rights to me, so it'll be on the next edition of BURKS
this summer (hopefully with all the errata fixed... :-)
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-12 11:55 New Books on Ada Stephen Kirkup
2001-03-12 15:22 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-03-14 17:21 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-03-14 20:03 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-15 1:40 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-03-15 10:18 ` John English [this message]
2001-03-15 18:03 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-15 1:43 ` Randy Brukardt
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