Steve: I, too, have not heard of the card you speak of. Does the card contain the book? If so, is it a flash drive type card or what? Tom
============================================ Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) *NM Foundation for Open Government* <http://nmfog.org> *Check out It's The People's Data <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* ============================================ <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 5:47 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@simtable.com> wrote: > Ed, > > I just ordered your 8th edition from Pearson > <https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/ANGEL-Pearson-e-Text-Interactive-Computer-Graphics-Access-Card-8th-Edition/PGM2160099.html?tab=order> > as I was blown away by the awesomeness of the new cover. :-) > > The confirmation email tells me a *physical* access card is being shipped > for my digital order. > > First time I've seen this - are physical access cards for digital products > common for textbooks these days? I just thought it was lazy programming in > the shopping cart requiring a physical address for a digital product. > > I have an urgent need to use your book this weekend and can not wait for > delivery. I will be calling the author directly while I await arrival :-) > It actually has to do with implementing the cover and getting the > decentralized capture and rendering to realtime which hinges on realtime > depth-image based rendering using spherical light fields while skipping any > 3D cartesian intermediate shenanigans. Thank you for your help so far! > > -S > > PS, I also checked out Amazon and they appear to be the same with the > physical card. > > PPS: 8th edition isn't the default choice edition on Amazon or Pearson > when searching. > > > > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:22 PM Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote: > >> I’ve been a book author since 1972 and a textbook author since 1989. My >> computer graphics textbook has been the most popular book in the area for >> 20 years and just came out in its eighth edition with various editions >> being available in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian. Sadly, the book >> business has changed over that time; changed in way that is bad for almost >> everyone, especially authors. I think you’re faced with a lot of bad >> choices. I hope some of the following will prove helpful. And if not >> helpful, at least interesting. >> >> Before I forget, you might enjoy reading of my adventures writing the >> first edition of my present textbook while on sabbatical in Venezuela, >> Ecuador, Hong Kong and Nepal. There’s a pointer to it on my home page >> www.cs.unm.edu/~angel >> >> When I had to pick a publisher, I knew the editors and local book reps >> at Academic Press, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall and Benjamin/Cummings. >> They dominated the CS field and did so largely because they had editors who >> knew the field, excellent book reps who knew the needs of the faculty and >> students, a willingness to invest in a book, and in-house production. None >> of these exist anymore and, as Tom pointed out, you're largely on your own. >> It’s unfortunate if you care about how many copies get sold and your >> royalties. I have many friends who self-published in the past. It’s a lot >> of work either way but I prefer to put my effort into content and not >> type-setting or marketing. None of my self-published friends have ever sold >> many books. >> >> I had three excellent editors over 20 years. When I did my first edition, >> my editor hired a development editor at great expense to improve the >> quality of my writing. She worked with the CS faculty and grad students at >> Caltech and Stanford. It made a huge difference. Now almost none of these >> jobs exist within the publishers. All production is contracted out to the >> low bidders (art, typesetting, copy editing, etc) most of whom are in >> India. I no longer have an editor. There is one person working for the >> publusher with whom I communicate with to try to get things done correctly >> with the contractors. This last edition has been a long painful experience. >> >> So what happened? Books were always expensive for students, especially >> when sold through college bookstores. Then used book sellers appeared and >> Asian students started importing low cost Asian versions of the standard >> textbooks. Under US copyright laws, both are legal. The publishers >> responded by upping prices which reduced sales even more. >> >> And then came electronic media. At first, my book, like most others, was >> still print-only. But the publisher sent perfect unwatermarked pdfs to all >> the schools what adopted the book for use by students with special needs. >> Wasn’t long before those pdfs made it to the Web. Then they had a >> electronic version and a kindle version that students could rent for a >> semester or year. The publisher, the largest in the business, was clueless >> about web security and had no idea that Kindles are not secure. Very >> quickly, the book appeared (with most of the other cs texts and various >> best sellers) on a Russian website as a “public service.” End of paid sales. >> >> The new edition is only available in electronic form and the publisher >> claims it is only available on a secure site. I doubt anyone on this list >> believes that. >> >> Although I never in the past had issues with the publisher having the >> copyright, which was pretty standard, I wish I had it now. Since there is >> no hope of making significant royalties now (we used), my coauthor and I >> would like to put the book out for free on our websites rather than having >> it appear on various illegal Russian sites known to most students. >> >> Personally, I no longer care about royalties but the long term issue I >> worry about is why would any young person write a textbook. It’s a huge >> amount of work and usually not something that in the academic world is >> valued as highly as research papers and grant funding. >> >> Ed >> _______________________ >> >> Ed Angel >> >> Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory >> (ARTS Lab) >> Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico >> >> 1017 Sierra Pinon >> Santa Fe, NM 87501 >> 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu >> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
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