On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On 28 June, 22:21, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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/ > > Come on William, how can you possibly hold Springer up as the model of > "openness". Where is the tex file? Where is the OSI license text?
I wrote: 'And they also are starting to understand "freeness"....'. This is dramatically different than what you implied I wrote. William -- 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
