I have been in discussion with Booksurge and Amazon.com re the provision of electronic version of my book since Booksurge closed their online store.
The deal I wanted was for purchasers of the hardcopy to receive a complimentary electronic copy, and for people to be able to purchase an electronic copy at a modest price. The trouble is that all these companies want to wrap the book up in some form of digital rights management, which usually prevents those of my readers with "non-mainstream" computers (ie non-Windows) to be able to access the manuscript. So I have decided to do the matter myself. Trade is unlikely to be very brisk, so I'll just handle requests via email. You can either prove to me you've ordered the hardcopy from Amazon (by for example emailing me the Amazon.com order number), or you can pay me AU $5 by Paypal (approx US $3.75), and I'll email back the full book as PDF file that you can print, make copies to your hearts content for personal use. The only thing you're not entitled to do is give the copy to someone else (not as though I'll be beating down your door to check though :). Cheers -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
