Re: New Books on Ada

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

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. 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. (Assuming the author's
name is prominent in the text and it gets used in a lot of classes &
contexts, it makes the author that much more of a widely recognized expert -
moreso than might already be the case. :-)

It would certainly be of benefit to Ada if there were a good college level
text that could be downloaded along with a compiler, etc. at no cost to the
student/hobbyist. There are on-line learning materials already, but a good
book in PDF or some other format that potentially can be sent to a printer
and looked at with leasure while sitting on the back porch, holding a boat
drink might just encourage a few more people to consider Ada. It would have
some attraction to those teaching a class in Ada as well......

MDC
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"Lao Xiao Hai" <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:3AAFA890.3245DF60@ix.netcom.com...
> I have a book with the working title,
>
>            Object-oriented Software Engineering in Ada
>
> that I thought was going to be published by Prentice-Hall.   Then they
> told me
> that they had decided not publish anymore Ada books, even though they
> liked
> what I had created.   Now, I am looking for another publisher.
>
> I have another book, Ada Distilled, that I use in my classes at Naval
> Postgraduate
> School.   After a couple more revisions, and some corrections suggested
> by Ed
> Colbert, I may put that book on the AdaWorks web site so people can
> download it.
>
> Richard Riehle
>
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>
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>
> > Not exactly.
> >
> > > See the web page
> > > http://www.science-books.net/ada.htm
> >
> > I see Programming and Problem Solving in Ada by N.B.Dale (2000)
> > as the only publication since 1999 and most of the others I own.
>