On Dec 19, 9:18 pm, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Nicolas M. Thiery > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Sage book writers, > > > I am negotiating with an editor for a printed version of the French > > sage book [1]. She is quite supportive of the project, and it's on a > > good track! Yet, she is taking a risk with the printing of a book > > whose online version is under an open CC license. In order to assess > > more precisely that risk, she would be interested in some statistics > > on the printed versions of other open source books about Sage. For
Could you find information for her more generally about such books? There are a lot of programming and other tutorial books which are released thus, if I recall correctly, but which people still want print copies of. One could even ask William about whether Springer is still getting people to buy copies of his book, or ask Rob Beezer about how many "hard copies" of his book are sold yearly... - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
