Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-25 Thread David Joyner
The new version is available on amazon.com. (Search for stein sage 4.3.5 and you'll get it.) It does not seem to be on amazon.co.uk (yet?). On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:03 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Who is responsible for the Sage Tutorial being at Amazon.com?  I was giving a

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-25 Thread John Cremona
On 25 April 2010 20:34, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: The new version is available on amazon.com. (Search for stein sage 4.3.5 and you'll get it.) It does not seem to be on amazon.co.uk (yet?). No -- though I was offered instead Sage Stein www.CafePress.co.uk - Show Your Sage

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
David Joyner wrote: The new version is available on amazon.com. (Search for stein sage 4.3.5 and you'll get it.) It does not seem to be on amazon.co.uk (yet?). I'm pretty sure it will not be on Amazon UK - full stop. This is one of the regular grips of people on the Create Space forums.

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-18 Thread David Kirkby
On 17 April 2010 21:04, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: I got the 2nd proof copy in the mail today and approved the proof. It should be available at the createspace.com site https://www.createspace.com/3446168 almost immediately. Last time it took awhile to percolate up to amazon.com.

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-18 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:41 AM, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 17 April 2010 21:04, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: I got the 2nd proof copy in the mail today and approved the proof. It should be available at the createspace.com site https://www.createspace.com/3446168

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-18 Thread John Cremona
Under sales region I selected US and international sales. That is the best I can do. Let's wait until it shows up on the US amazon store. If it doesn't show up at the UK amazon store, I'll look into seeing if I can register a complaint. At the moment, a search on amazon.co.uk under books

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-18 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
John Cremona wrote: Under sales region I selected US and international sales. That is the best I can do. Let's wait until it shows up on the US amazon store. If it doesn't show up at the UK amazon store, I'll look into seeing if I can register a complaint. At the moment, a search on

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-18 Thread David Joyner
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: John Cremona wrote: ... At the moment, a search on amazon.co.uk under books for Sage Tutorial finds 3 matches: ... I'll try again in a week or so! John I'm pretty sure it will not appear on Amazon UK.

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-17 Thread David Joyner
I got the 2nd proof copy in the mail today and approved the proof. It should be available at the createspace.com site https://www.createspace.com/3446168 almost immediately. Last time it took awhile to percolate up to amazon.com. The new title is Sage Tutorial, release 4.3.5. On Thu, Apr 15,

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-14 Thread David Joyner
The createspace server has accepted everything and I received the proof in the mail a few hours ago. I didn't like a few things, so will try to tweek the latex source a bit (the bibliography is on p101 instead of p97, and there was an overfull box on p17 ...) to fix some minor problems. Hopefully

[sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:10 PM, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: The createspace server has accepted everything and I received the proof in the mail a few hours ago. I didn't like a few things, so will try to tweek the latex source a bit (the bibliography is on p101 instead of p97, and

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-10 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:01 AM, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Erik Lane erikl...@gmail.com wrote: Heck, Amazon still has the 3.0 version of the tutorial on sale brand new from them. Not to say that that's any better, but they're both still being

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-10 Thread David Joyner
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:04 AM, David Joyner wdjoy...@gmail.com wrote: Just to summarize what I just did: We used to use latex files, now we use rest/sphinx. Using ./sage -docbuild tutorial latex I created the latex files. Then I followed John's suggestions in

[sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-09 Thread William Stein
Hi, Who is responsible for the Sage Tutorial being at Amazon.com? I was giving a workshop today and learned that it is at Version 3.4 (!!), hence horribly out of date. People *do* buy it all the time though -- so, I think this is very bad. -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-09 Thread Erik Lane
Heck, Amazon still has the 3.0 version of the tutorial on sale brand new from them. Not to say that that's any better, but they're both still being printed, possibly?? Erik On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:03 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Who is responsible for the Sage Tutorial being