Hmm...difficult to judge why he changed his mind. I don¹t know the guy (never heard of him) and doubt writing to him out of the blue will be much use. I guess we put that down to experience.
I publish all my own texts on my website (so long as they are not currently published elsewhere and I am allowed to reproduce them). They seem to be read a fair bit. I can see the IP tracks of users accessing the various texts. They are mostly academic IP¹s and usually come in flurries from one institution or another so I assume the students have been given the text as part of their reading list. 90% are US based. Works for me (no money of course). Regards Simon On 3/3/09 15:53, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Simon - > > Why I'm not sure. He originally wrote a very effusive letter to me saying > he'd be glad to publish it and send it along. I only had the pdf copy and > sent it; he wrote back and said it was unusable and he couldn't save it as > anything else. I wrote back and said I was trying to get a decent conver- > sion (I did eventually). He wrote back and said he thought the manuscript > was ready for publication and since it wasn't he had doubts about publish- > ing it. He then wrote a second time and withdrew his offer completely. At > that point I was angry and wrote him a letter saying he shouldn't havemade > the offer in the first place, etc. etc. And that was that. The only thing > I can think of is that maybe he made or withdrew the offer on drugs or > felt he was over his head and panicked - I don't know. I haven't heard > from him since and don't want to - I spent three days on the conversion. > > Anything else you might write him - he might be more open with you than > with me - Gatza, Geoffrey -- Geoffrey Gatza" <[email protected]> - but > it's dead in the water. > > At one point Minnesota indicated they were probably going to do the book; > they withdrew when it became clear Sandy wouldn't be able to finish the > framework any time soon. Since I'd waited about a year on the framework, I > asked him about proceeding with the manuscript as is/was, and he agreed, > so we wrote Minnesota accordingly. The work stands as it is; I personally > doubt Sandy would have the time to go back into it, but it reads fine, if > a bit non-academic, In any case, at this point it seems I can't even get a > publish-on-demand press to do it! > > My writing, as I said somewhere else, is hopeless in terms of any sort of > permanency (for books are slightly more permanent - not much - than files > on my webpage) - they're always on the verge of disappearance and I have > to live with that. I hate cross-posting stuff but it seems the only way I > can get any readership at all. > > - Alan, and thanks for asking > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art [email protected] www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ [email protected] www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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