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Re: Re: Re: Re: Happy Birthday Mathematica!
Fair enough!
Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> I certianly have no objection to the existence of a printed version of
> "The Mathematica Book", even if it is 11000 pages long. What is
> important to me (since I definitely have no use for such a
> monstrosity) is that I should not be required to subsidize other
> people's preferences in this respect. I may of course be wrong, but
> judging by the posts in the MathGroup, I doubt many people would wish
> to pay for such a book (it certainly won't be free) if they had a
> choice. In view of that, I don't think it would be a very wise of WRI
> to print a large number of copies and hope that enough buyers will
> be found later. The only sensible approach would be to allow those who
> want a printed copy to custom order it, and pay for the full cost of
> printing, binding and sending themselves. Given that an electronic
> version already exists I can see no great problems in making suitable
> arrangements right away; in fact WRI could even sell license the right
> to print "The Mathematica Book" on demand basis to Kinko's. This seems
> to me an ideal solution to which I can't see how anyone could object.
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Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
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