On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 11:23:23PM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Crikers, Russell, I have NO idea. I was raised with a serious case of > frog-worship, and so when the publisher came to me and offered me 1000 > dollars for the french rights, I was tickled silly. > > The whole thing got sillier and sillier. In the first press run they > absent mindedly left my name off the book. So somebody went through and > pasted in my name on the cover and on the title page of every copy. I felt > so sorry for them, I took a bunch of those as my author's copies. Still > have them, would like one? Comportement des Oiseaux du Jardin. With a > hand pasted cover! Collectors' item. >
I didn't know you were a twitcher! Did you sell many copies? And were English readers more interested in birds than the French, or was it the other way around? > Think what it will be worth when I croak. > A friend ordered a copy of my book to give his brother-in-law for his birthday. When it arrived from Amazon, he unwrapped it to find it was a copy of "History of guns", or some such militaria style book. Only inside the cover, was a copy of my book printed on the same form factor as the gun book (so plenty of white space). He promptly alerted Amazon who supplied the proper version of my book - but he now proudly shows off his edition as a collectors item. Think what that will be worth! Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [email protected] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
