Re: Future of the cookbook
Noel Welsh <noelwelsh-/[email protected]>
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--- MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there > an easy URL to the relevant discussion that someone > can give me, please? http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2004-January/004670.html "One often overlooked element of *great* value is: LOTS of documentation - books, examples, tutorials..." > I have that and one other thing > which I will help with if wanted. Does this mean it > is wanted? Yes. What is the "other thing"? > MIT Press is stocked by the bookshops in my nearest > city (Cambridge), but not in this town... > Lisps are on the O'Reilly blacklist, so that's > probably never going to happen. Ok, my point here is that academic publishers (i.e. the university presses) don't even attempt to sell books to most bookstores. If after, say, a year the collaborative online Scheme Cookbook has become a weighty tome and want to try to find a publisher to take it to the mass market (and I only used O'Reilly as an exemplar; APress or AW would do just as well (or better!)) we need to have a licence the publisher will accept and a publisher who will get it into bookstores. It appears most publishers are accepting fairly liberal licences these days so it probably won't be a problem. > Provincially, could we workshop this at a London > meeting? Sure. We need something to talk about at the next meeting :-) Noel ===== Email: noelwelsh <at> yahoo <dot> com Jabber: noelw <at> jabber <dot> org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click