On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 03:19:12AM -0700, Volker Braun wrote:
> In the end its just another avenue to get the word out. The only advantage
> of a hardcopy is that we can reach an additional audience through book
> shelves.
For not so rational reasons, it also still makes a difference in
reassuring people that Sage is something real, concrete, serious. I
distributed hardcopies of our book to newcomers in a couple occasions
(Sage Days, classes), and it had a tangible impact. In Bobo, it even
became a collector item that I was asked to put my autograph on :-)
On a practical note, there are exams in France where people can bring
printed books whose ISBN is in a white list. To get on that white
list, you first need the book to be printed!
Note: getting a print-on-demand book in math libraries should work;
they just need to get the word and they can order the book online
(it's on all the usual channels). Getting them in book stores might be
a bit more tricky; createspace sells an option for maybe 40 bucks to
have the book be added to the "north America book resellers database"
which in principle means that it could end up in book stores. I don't
know how well it works in practice. We haven't tried because there was
no similar option for France.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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