On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Adam Moskowitz wrote:
David Lang wrote:
Can you get LISA membership ($45) without also ahving to have USENIX
membership ($125)?
Yes.
Which just leaves the short topics books. Are they still publishing these
on a regular basis?
The last booklet was published sometime in 2012.
Is this something we should be doing?
USENIX pays their authors "real money" to write those books. When I
wrote one back in 2003 they paid me $2,000; I have to believe they pay
more now. They also pay the series editor and a copy editor; plus there
are also several unpaid reviewers (per booklet).
The question is if these booklets are intended to be sold at a price to make a
profit or just break even on publication costs.
I could see LOPSA paying an author something for the book and then selling it at
cost. I think that could be a very worthwhile use of our funds, and the book
itself would be good advertising for Lopsa.
I'll volunteer to do the legwork to take an edited book and get it through
the publishing hoops
The hard part is getting an author to actually write the booklet. Even
with the money it's still not easy to get people to write; if it were
easy, USENIX would almost certainly have published more than 26 booklets.
I agree that it's a lot of work to write, I've done a few articles. Other than
"what it takes to cover the topic", what's the expected size of one of these
bookets (wordcount)?
I know we have some book authors here, what does everyone thing?
David Lang
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