On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Lorcan Dempsey wrote:
> In each case there is resistance to the web presence.
Why not just ditch the publishers and go straight to the web? If you must
have it printed on dead trees there are plenty of companies that will
produce small print runs of books relatively cheaply and let you keep the
rights. After all, unless you've sneaked Barbara Cartland into UKOLN
Towers, I won't think that a LIS publications will be sitting in the best
seller list so you'll only need a relatively small run and the promotion
can be via web pages, reviews in magazines, word of mouth (er, much like
most publishers seem to rely on - that certainly how I find out about most
of the non-fiction books I buy). Normal publishers seem to want to charge
the punters whoppingly huge amounts for this publication which seems a bit
odd to me.
The CS lecturers here do this sort of thing; one of the recommended C/C++
undergrad programming guides was written by one of our staff and published
by a company called Group D Publications that one of our other staff
members was associated with (look up
<URL:http://www-leland.stanford.edu/group/da/BooksList.html> for an
example of a metadata book that they published just to show that they're a
real publisher with ISBNs and everything). The book is very handy for our
undergrads as it covers what they need to know and costs about a fiver (a
wee bit cheaper than a lot of the paper books on C/C++!).
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Jon "Jim'll" Knight, Researcher, Sysop and General Dogsbody, Dept. Computer
Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, Leics., ENGLAND. LE11 3TU.
* I've found I now dream in Perl. More worryingly, I enjoy those dreams. *
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|