On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Greg Folkert wrote:
> Bravo and job well done.
Thank you.
> Now the only thing I really have to complain about... is it's
> availability. Only Softpro in the US carries it. I could not goto a
> local bookstore I have near me (not BN or Waldenbooks) and even order
> it. What gives with that?
O'Reilly declined to publish the second edition. Luckily, a very small
company here in the UK agreed to take it on. I suspect it wouldn't have
got published at all otherwise. Unfortunately, it is not easy for a
small UK company, unknown to the main bookstores, to persuade the big book
chains in the USA to take on a rather specialist book. The timing was
bad too, with all publishers and bookstores suffering a huge downturn (I
read somewhere that some publishers had 50% of their books returned by
bookstores).
I know that UIT have been trying hard to improve availability in North
America; I don't know exactly what the current status is.
Anybody (individual or bookstore) *should* be able to order it. The web
page (see below) does have an email address for bookstores who want to
order for resale.
Regards,
Philip
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