I think it's just an access code to put in on the site. Haven't received it yet. Though I've heard from the author :-) _______________________________________________________________________ stephen.gue...@simtable.com <stephen.gue...@simtable.com> CEO, Simtable http://www.simtable.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505)995-0206 mobile: (505)577-5828 twitter: @simtable zoom.com/j/5055775828
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 3:10 PM Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: > Steve: > I, too, have not heard of the card you speak of. Does the card contain > the book? If so, is it a flash drive type card or what? > Tom > > ============================================ > Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > *NM Foundation for Open Government* <http://nmfog.org> > *Check out It's The People's Data > <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* > > ============================================ > > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> > <#m_4189209916214447477_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 5:47 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@simtable.com> > wrote: > >> Ed, >> >> I just ordered your 8th edition from Pearson >> <https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/ANGEL-Pearson-e-Text-Interactive-Computer-Graphics-Access-Card-8th-Edition/PGM2160099.html?tab=order> >> as I was blown away by the awesomeness of the new cover. :-) >> >> The confirmation email tells me a *physical* access card is being shipped >> for my digital order. >> >> First time I've seen this - are physical access cards for digital >> products common for textbooks these days? I just thought it was lazy >> programming in the shopping cart requiring a physical address for a digital >> product. >> >> I have an urgent need to use your book this weekend and can not wait for >> delivery. I will be calling the author directly while I await arrival :-) >> It actually has to do with implementing the cover and getting the >> decentralized capture and rendering to realtime which hinges on realtime >> depth-image based rendering using spherical light fields while skipping any >> 3D cartesian intermediate shenanigans. Thank you for your help so far! >> >> -S >> >> PS, I also checked out Amazon and they appear to be the same with the >> physical card. >> >> PPS: 8th edition isn't the default choice edition on Amazon or Pearson >> when searching. >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:22 PM Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote: >> >>> I’ve been a book author since 1972 and a textbook author since 1989. My >>> computer graphics textbook has been the most popular book in the area for >>> 20 years and just came out in its eighth edition with various editions >>> being available in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian. Sadly, the book >>> business has changed over that time; changed in way that is bad for almost >>> everyone, especially authors. I think you’re faced with a lot of bad >>> choices. I hope some of the following will prove helpful. And if not >>> helpful, at least interesting. >>> >>> Before I forget, you might enjoy reading of my adventures writing the >>> first edition of my present textbook while on sabbatical in Venezuela, >>> Ecuador, Hong Kong and Nepal. There’s a pointer to it on my home page >>> www.cs.unm.edu/~angel >>> >>> When I had to pick a publisher, I knew the editors and local book reps >>> at Academic Press, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall and Benjamin/Cummings. >>> They dominated the CS field and did so largely because they had editors who >>> knew the field, excellent book reps who knew the needs of the faculty and >>> students, a willingness to invest in a book, and in-house production. None >>> of these exist anymore and, as Tom pointed out, you're largely on your own. >>> It’s unfortunate if you care about how many copies get sold and your >>> royalties. I have many friends who self-published in the past. It’s a lot >>> of work either way but I prefer to put my effort into content and not >>> type-setting or marketing. None of my self-published friends have ever sold >>> many books. >>> >>> I had three excellent editors over 20 years. When I did my first >>> edition, my editor hired a development editor at great expense to improve >>> the quality of my writing. She worked with the CS faculty and grad students >>> at Caltech and Stanford. It made a huge difference. Now almost none of >>> these jobs exist within the publishers. All production is contracted out to >>> the low bidders (art, typesetting, copy editing, etc) most of whom are in >>> India. I no longer have an editor. There is one person working for the >>> publusher with whom I communicate with to try to get things done correctly >>> with the contractors. This last edition has been a long painful experience. >>> >>> So what happened? Books were always expensive for students, especially >>> when sold through college bookstores. Then used book sellers appeared and >>> Asian students started importing low cost Asian versions of the standard >>> textbooks. Under US copyright laws, both are legal. The publishers >>> responded by upping prices which reduced sales even more. >>> >>> And then came electronic media. At first, my book, like most others, was >>> still print-only. But the publisher sent perfect unwatermarked pdfs to all >>> the schools what adopted the book for use by students with special needs. >>> Wasn’t long before those pdfs made it to the Web. Then they had a >>> electronic version and a kindle version that students could rent for a >>> semester or year. The publisher, the largest in the business, was clueless >>> about web security and had no idea that Kindles are not secure. Very >>> quickly, the book appeared (with most of the other cs texts and various >>> best sellers) on a Russian website as a “public service.” End of paid sales. >>> >>> The new edition is only available in electronic form and the publisher >>> claims it is only available on a secure site. I doubt anyone on this list >>> believes that. >>> >>> Although I never in the past had issues with the publisher having the >>> copyright, which was pretty standard, I wish I had it now. Since there is >>> no hope of making significant royalties now (we used), my coauthor and I >>> would like to put the book out for free on our websites rather than having >>> it appear on various illegal Russian sites known to most students. >>> >>> Personally, I no longer care about royalties but the long term issue I >>> worry about is why would any young person write a textbook. It’s a huge >>> amount of work and usually not something that in the academic world is >>> valued as highly as research papers and grant funding. >>> >>> Ed >>> _______________________ >>> >>> Ed Angel >>> >>> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory >>> (ARTS Lab) >>> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico >>> >>> 1017 Sierra Pinon >>> Santa Fe, NM 87501 >>> 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu >>> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel >>> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> > <#m_4189209916214447477_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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