FYI some UK distributors hold the Australia and South Africa markets which may 
account for high UK orders and zero Australia orders.

Gary

24/01/02 18:18:29, Mark Guzdial <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

>There's been a discussion on the Squeak Foundation list about where 
>Squeak is being taught in universities.  One sampling of that is 
>where the White and NuBlue Squeak books are being adopted, and I just 
>got that report today for Summer and Fall 2001 sales.  Thought that 
>y'all might be interested, so here are some of the highlights. These 
>are sales to educational institutions of 20 or more books, with US 
>universities highlighted, and international universities hidden 
>behind purchases by Pearson distribution centers.  (Pearson owns 
>Prentice-Hall.)
>
>White Book (Textbook): Georgia Tech, Portland State, San Diego State, 
>and U. Washington are all buying class-size bunches of the White 
>book.  There are various sales to distribution centers, like Borders, 
>Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble.  Something I was surprised at was the 
>167 copies bought by Pearson Education in Singapore.  That's in 
>contrast to the 25 copies to Japan, 159 to Canada, 25 to Hong Kong, 
>and 20 copies to Australia.  Are there a lot of Squeakers in 
>Singapore?  Pearson England bought a whopping 756 copies of the White 
>book -- perhaps there are some classes in the UK teaching Squeak?
>
>NuBlue Book: The only university buying a bunch of the NuBlue book is 
>Stanford, who bought 35 of them -- that sounds more like a class, and 
>less like the bookstore is buying a couple to have on the shelf. 
>Again, Pearsons in Singapore ordered quite a few: 86 copies.  The 
>NuBlue book is popular outside the US, too: 117 in Canada, 264 in 
>England, 20 in Hong Kong, and 25 in Japan.  (None to Australia, as of 
>this report ending 01 Sept. 2001.)
>
>Other than Stanford, we're not seeing many of the top US 
>universities, but these are promising numbers, and it's interesting 
>the large number of non-US purchases.  I suspect that Smalltalk is 
>more popular in academic research outside of the US than in, so it 
>makes sense that Squeak would be popular there.
>
>Mark
>
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