How different does the "free but slightly different web-version" have to be?
I think the AMS will cave in if you lean hard enough on them. It would certainly make for cheaper hardcopies. Though the Springer books are expensive but not outrageously so. There is probably still some value in having a traditional publisher (over print-on-demand) to do the advertising, our main goal should be getting books into university libraries around the world and not making nice hardcopies for advanced users. Andrey and I have some lecture notes on toric geometry with Sage that could be expanded... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
