> > > > For some time now, I've been in touch with Doris Wong at > > > > Apress regarding your reprint of Paul Graham's book "On Lisp".
> > > > Last time, in January this year, she wrote:
> > > > > Thanks for checking in. We are still planning on publishing > > > > > Paul Graham's book this year, the Publisher assures me. Stella wrote: > > > I am not aware of the reprint of "On Lisp" by Paul Graham I wrote: > > Are you really sure you have no plans to publish that book? Stella wrote: > Unfortunately, [the On Lisp reprint] was canceled early in the > production and I am not aware of any plan to publish that book.
> Regards, > Stella Lim > Sales Assistant
I would try to verify this with Paul Graham, but his website says he's unable to check email at the moment.
In article <1103126681.421917.89...@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
mmcconnell17...@yahoo.com wrote: > It would be great if the book were reprinted, but it's not so urgent, > because the complete text is available at Graham's website.
I wonder if Graham has looked into any of those "publish on demand" sites for putting his book out again?
>> It would be great if the book were reprinted, but it's not so urgent, >> because the complete text is available at Graham's website.
> I wonder if Graham has looked into any of those "publish on demand" > sites for putting his book out again?
FWIW, the reason Apress isn't republishing _On Lisp_ may have as much to do with Graham as with Apress. This is almost pure speculation but I do know at one point Apress was waiting for Graham to provide them with the manuscript in some form or another and I gathered that it was going to require some work on his part to get what he had (probably final proofs in whatever format the previous publisher used) back into "source code" form. Perhaps he decided that it just wasn't worth it to go through all that just to relive past glories. If that's the case, "publish on demand" isn't going to make that part any easier.
Or maybe he just has a big box of left-over copies and is slowing selling them used on Amazon for the big bucks and doesn't want to drive the price down. ;-)
-Peter
P.S. If you want a dead-tree version, why not just grab the PDF file from his site and have it printed and bound at your local copy shop. (I was going to recommend Kinko's online printing service but their web site made it impossible for me to figure out how much that would cost so instead I'm going to disrecommend Kinko's instead.)
Damond Walker <damo...@comcast.net> writes: > I wonder if Graham has looked into any of those "publish on demand" > sites for putting his book out again?
You can probably try asking him by email. The few times I did, he sent kind replies.
Well as the publisher of Apress I thought I should weigh in. We will publish the book as soon as Paul Graham gives us the manuscript. The book isn't so much "cancelled" as postponed... We just don't know until when.
g...@thecornells.com wrote: > Well as the publisher of Apress I thought I should weigh in. We will > publish the book as soon as Paul Graham gives us the manuscript. The > book isn't so much "cancelled" as postponed... We just don't know until > when.
Have you tried the "we have to be ready to fill orders when Practical Common Lisp triggers a demand spike" angle?
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