From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,30d250cac30c46d3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-17 01:38:52 PST Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!server3.netnews.ja.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Books on Ada Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:18:16 +0000 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3AB096E8.389994F1@bton.ac.uk> References: <3AACB939.8310804A@liv.ac.uk> <4xHc6jfJ4Jka@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3AAFA890.3245DF60@ix.netcom.com> <98oirs$a70$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 984651463 8929 193.62.183.204 (15 Mar 2001 10:17:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Mar 2001 10:17:43 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.lang.ada:91475 Date: 2001-03-15T10:17:43+00:00 List-Id: 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... :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je/ Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk/ -----------------------------------------------------------------