I had a somewhat similar experience with Dell.
I bought a laptop and docking station that had a serious defect. If I left the
laptop asleep in the dock, it would slowly heat up but the fan would not go on.
Consequently, the mother board would burn out in a few days. This was a design
defect th
Although I am no fan of the present broken publishing system, the recent posts
have led me to think about the steps that an author has to go through to get a
book out. If you look at what it takes, all the proposed alternatives don't
solve the problem for an author. I'm addressing my comments mo
About five years ago, I was in the NYC audience of a speech given by Don Lamm
(whom many of you might know--lives in Santa Fe, former chmn of the board of W.
W. Norton). The audience was mixed authors and publishing types. Among other
things, Don was saying, authors: you better provide your own
And the answer is... (imagine envelop being held to forehead)
Amazon self-publishing.
Do your own typesetting.
Do your own proofreading, indexing, etc.
Do your own promotion.
Hire an editor to do copy editing.
Collect [[ !! 70% !! ]] royalties every month.
--Doug
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Just curious: If you use it, how well does Wi-Fi tethering work for you?
I ask because I was quite surprised that my phone data usage is way below
my 2GB plan, and would like the phone to let me use my iPad while mobile.
(My guess is using it with a laptop would really quickly go over the 2GB!)
The situation for complex textbooks is quite different from the
situation for other kinds of books.
For nearly 20 years Ruth and I did ALL of the work on our physics
textbook, which was possible only because we have very strong computer
skills. We also did most of the marketing. It was only with t
Well, maybe.
But I'd be willing to bet that if a big-name physicist were to publish a
physics text, with the intent that it become the standard for teaching
his/her physics specialty, Wiley would find themselves sucking vacuum.
Say, for example, that George Smoot wanted to self-publish
a grad-lev
all this stuff requires time, work and risks. Who does it for free?
Bob Lancaster
On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Joseph Spinden wrote:
> Here's an article I came across today:
>
>
> Opinion: Academic Publishing Is Broken | The Scientist
>
> http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/19/opinion-academi
Most definitely not me.
--Doug
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Robert Lancaster wrote:
>
> all this stuff requires time, work and risks. Who does it for free?
>
> Bob Lancaster
>
> On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Joseph Spinden wrote:
>
> > Here's an article I came across today:
> >
> >
> > Opin
Original Message
Subject:Re: [FRIAM] The disappearing virtual library
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:37:44 -0600
From: Joseph Spinden
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
I talked yesterday with someone who was in the publishing industry for
s
It has been 50 years since major physicists played any role in the
creation of intro-level physics textbooks, as opposed to
graduate-level texts. The then-exceptions were the Nobelists Richard
Feynman ("The Feynman Lectures on Physics") and Ed Purcell
("Electromagnetism" in the Berkeley Series).
I
Given the rapid advancement in digital publishing opportunities over the past
few years, I'm not sure exactly how much more difficult this is for a "lesser
known" scientist. The conversion of LaTeX to ebook problem remains, but if you
are in a field that does not need carefully-formatted specialize
There is a crucial sociological issue that applied and still applies
with a vengeance in our own intro physics case. The intro
"calculus-based" course taken by engineering and science students is
very large in engineering schools, often involving 1000 or more
students. It is a very complex course,
I use it but not a lot. I use my phone as both a Wi-Fi hotspot, and
tethered. if I don't watch a lot of video, I don't use a lot of my 2gb.
~~James
On Apr 21, 2012 12:50 PM, "Owen Densmore" wrote:
> Just curious: If you use it, how well does Wi-Fi tethering work for you?
>
> I ask because I wa
This is so Star Trek:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303513404577356190967904210.html
As /. said: http://goo.gl/DNDzV
"A team including Larry Page, Ram Shriram and Eric Schmidt of Google,
director James Cameron, Charles Simonyi (Microsoft executive and
astronaut), Ross Perot Jr. (s
There's a webcast on Tuesday. I'd watch.
Carl
On 4/21/12 9:11 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
This is so Star Trek:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303513404577356190967904210.html
As /. said: http://goo.gl/DNDzV
"A team including Larry Page, Ram Shriram and Eric Schmidt of
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