On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I don't think it is a click-through. > > I think this publisher is for real and actually does quite a good job. > > Apart from the fact that the cover illustrations have nothing at all > to do with the content, their books seem well-written. They publish a > lot of titles and they offer them much cheaper if you buy them as E- > books. They ship lots of places if you want a physical copy. They also > offer a single chapter from each book for evaluation before you > purchase. > > They also do seem to add value to the publication after the author is > done with it. > > It is definitely publication on a budget, but their prices seem to > reflect that, and Sage does seem to be something they would definitely > want to publish a book on. If I was an expert Sage user, had more > time, etc, etc. I'd definitely take this seriously.
I definitely would not. In my opinion, the are only two reasonable options for publishing Sage-related books: 1. Use an open license and self publish through, e.g., Lulu. The Sage community can do the hard editing work better than most publishers. (Here's I'm talking mainly about Minh Nguyen.) I think you'll earn as much money as you would get from Packt, but you get 100% of the profits instead of 18%, so end buyers pay far less (and get more -- due to the open license). 2. Publish with a very high quality reputable publisher, e.g., Springer, O'Reilly, AMS, Cambridge, Oxford. They understand the math world and can advertise. And they also are starting to understand "freeness".... Case in point: http://wstein.org/ent/ -- William > > Bill. > > On 28 June, 21:33, "Justin C. Walker" <jus...@mac.com> wrote: >> On 28 Jun, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Bill Hart wrote: >> >> > As with all such things, beware you are dealing with the real people >> > and not some phoney. I see the links in the form letter don't direct >> > to the websites they say they do, but instead go via google. Not sure >> > what's up with that.... >> >> Maybe it's a form of "click-through" that somehow makes money for someone. >> It's the new economy, all over again. >> >> Justin >> >> -- >> Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large >> Director >> Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income >> ----------- >> Nobody knows the trouble I've been >> ----------- > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
