Hi WIlliam: I'm curious, is there any further progress on this plan of a Use Sage! series at Springer? - David
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:27 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sage-Developers, > > There is a big series of small books about R that Springer publishes: > > http://www.springer.com/series/6991?detailsPage=titles > > The editorial director of that series at Springer just talked with me > on the phone for a while, and he says these are among "Springers best > selling books"; moreover, he believes they have a major impact on > making R a really viable platform for computational statistics. > > He wants to know if we want to create a series like this for Sage. > The timing would be good, giving how the level of maturity and > comprehensive functionality of Sage, at least compared to a few years > ago. For *this* series, Springer appears amenable to authors > keeping copyright, and for there being a free (but slightly different) > web-version of a given book. As a concrete example, the thematic > tutorial on combinatorics at > > http://sagemath.org/doc/reference/combinat/sage/combinat/tutorial.html# > > could be expanded into a short book (maybe 100 pages), published by > Springer, and still have the shorter similar version included with > Sage. In other words, they are more amenable to flexible copyright > and distribution with *this* series of books than with many of their > other more traditional offerings. > > If you have something that you could see being polished into a book > for inclusion in a series called "Use Sage!" for Springer, let me > know. If there is sufficient interest, then this could help > substantially with our mission statement: "Create a free open source > viable alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab." (In > fact, Springer believes their book series plays a big role in R's > extreme popularity.) > > I've also talked with both the AMS and with O'Reilly about similar > projects, but it doesn't seem to work out. Also, both publishers > (especially O'Reilly) seemed much more "allergic" to material in the > books being partly duplicated online. > > -- William > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-combinat-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-de...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
