On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Nicolas M. Thiery <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks everyone for your feedback so far. > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 06:21:29PM -0800, kcrisman wrote: >> 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. > > Yup, though how well this works certainly depends a lot on the kind of > readers. Hence her specific interest for Sage books (she already has > edited a CC book about R. Stallman). > >> 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... > > This thread is definitely targeting William and Rob :-)
My book http://wstein.org/ent/ has lots of Sage code in it, has been freely available for a few years in PDF, and is also published by Springer-Verlag. The book has sold at least "several hundred" copies a year. I don't have the figures handy at all though. The *new* hardcover price for my book on Amazon has varied between $22 and $26, ever since it came out, and the hard cover version looks really nice. So this may be one factor in why it sells. It seems like Springer maybe also provides the whole book for free to "read online" for anybody here, though I'm not sure: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-85525-7#section=132527&page=1 NOTE: This book is not published under an open license. Instead, Springer gave me the right to freely distribute the pdf of the book one year after the publication date. That's all. I've tried to get them to do this again with another book I'm writing, and sadly so far I have failed. -- William > > Cheers, > Nicolas > -- > Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <[email protected]> > http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ > > -- > 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 -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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
