OnLisp and Apress

Zellyn Hunter

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Jun 27, 2003, 3:42:33 PM6/27/03

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I thought you might be interested in this. I emailed Apress to see
about OnLisp, since I'd heard they were going to be reprinting it this
Summer. As you can see, the folks at Apress are quite friendly, and
they responded very quickly. Unfortunately the book will not be out
until later. PDFs will have to do for now!

Yours,

Zellyn Hunter

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Hi Zellyn,

Thanks for writing Apress with your book questions. We will be
republishing Paul Graham's book, but it will probably publish closer
to the end of the year or early next year. We are going to print a new
edition of "The ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book", edited by David
Margolies due to publish late September. After that, we plan on
publishing at least one more Lisp book in addition to Paul Graham's.

We also hope to have our Apress discussion forums up before long so
you can find out more that way. I will keep your inquiry on file and
hope to be able to notify you personally on any new developments.

Best regards,
Doris
Doris Wong
Product Manager
Apress

c hore

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Jun 30, 2003, 1:30:37 AM6/30/03

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> We are going to print a new
> edition of "The ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book", edited by David
> Margolies due to publish late September.

I did not even know that there was a current edition
and such a thing. Is this referring to the Graham text
(in which case "Reference Book" should not have been
capitalized, as it was intended in a generic sense
rather than as part of the title)?

Or is this the actual ANSI document that is supposedly
prohibitively costly, and compared to which the HyperSpec
seems to be considered preferable, more readable,
and more useful? If so, I wonder whether the "new edition"
would overcome the disadvantages of the current.

Do the existing copies of On Lisp really change hands
nowadays at the prices shown on Amazon ---
currently $150 to $800+?

Frank A. Adrian

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Jun 30, 2003, 12:16:39 PM6/30/03

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c hore wrote:

> Do the existing copies of On Lisp really change hands
> nowadays at the prices shown on Amazon ---
> currently $150 to $800+?

My goodness! I hope not. I saw a copy of it at Powell's Technical for
about $35 or so.

faa

Moop

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Jun 30, 2003, 5:59:21 PM6/30/03

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Assuming it's $0.11 a letter sized page,

(* (/ 413 4) 0.11)
=> 11.3575

Spend $11 + binding and cover and print it yourself. Cheap (Cheap) ... CHEAP.

Who cares if it's bound by a commercial book binding machine with a
green tree on the cover?

Shawn

Kenny Tilton

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Jul 1, 2003, 12:54:21 PM7/1/03

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hmmm, what if you point out to them the sales/marketing opportunity
they'll miss at ILC2003?:

http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/

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kenny tilton
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Kevin Layer

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Jul 7, 2003, 7:05:13 PM7/7/03

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car...@yahoo.com (c hore) writes:

> > We are going to print a new
> > edition of "The ANSI Common Lisp Reference Book", edited by David
> > Margolies due to publish late September.
>
> I did not even know that there was a current edition
> and such a thing. Is this referring to the Graham text
> (in which case "Reference Book" should not have been
> capitalized, as it was intended in a generic sense
> rather than as part of the title)?

The name of the original was "Common Lisp The Reference" (CLtR, for
short). Printed in 1988 by Addison-Wesley, authored by Franz.