Hi Sage-Developers, There is a big series of small books about R that Springer publishes:
http://www.springer.com/series/6991?detailsPage=titles The editorial director of that series at Springer just talked with me on the phone for a while, and he says these are among "Springers best selling books"; moreover, he believes they have a major impact on making R a really viable platform for computational statistics. He wants to know if we want to create a series like this for Sage. The timing would be good, giving how the level of maturity and comprehensive functionality of Sage, at least compared to a few years ago. For *this* series, Springer appears amenable to authors keeping copyright, and for there being a free (but slightly different) web-version of a given book. As a concrete example, the thematic tutorial on combinatorics at http://sagemath.org/doc/reference/combinat/sage/combinat/tutorial.html# could be expanded into a short book (maybe 100 pages), published by Springer, and still have the shorter similar version included with Sage. In other words, they are more amenable to flexible copyright and distribution with *this* series of books than with many of their other more traditional offerings. If you have something that you could see being polished into a book for inclusion in a series called "Use Sage!" for Springer, let me know. If there is sufficient interest, then this could help substantially with our mission statement: "Create a free open source viable alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab." (In fact, Springer believes their book series plays a big role in R's extreme popularity.) I've also talked with both the AMS and with O'Reilly about similar projects, but it doesn't seem to work out. Also, both publishers (especially O'Reilly) seemed much more "allergic" to material in the books being partly duplicated online. -- William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
