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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30d250cac30c46d3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-14 17:43:28 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Books on Ada Message-ID: References: <3AACB939.8310804A@liv.ac.uk> <4xHc6jfJ4Jka@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3AAFA890.3245DF60@ix.netcom.com> <98oirs$a70$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Organization: LJK Software Date: 14 Mar 2001 20:40:09 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 984620412 216.44.122.34 (Thu, 15 Mar 2001 01:40:12 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 01:40:12 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5747 Date: 2001-03-14T20:40:09-05:00 List-Id: In article <98oirs$a70$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, "Marin David Condic" writes: > 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. :-) I am always happy to pay for a book I want -- the only reason I responded to the initial post (possibly not from a regular participant) was that I wanted to debunk the claim that these were all "new" books. I am not particularly dissatisfied with the Ada books I already own, but someone who proclaims a "new" list not much longer than my own holdings certainly is aiming low.