Hi Stef,

is there any chance to get the book via Amazon? I think that would
give it some more visibility besides making it a bit easier to buy.

Cheers

Matthias



On Dec 6, 2007 9:53 AM, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> I'm happy to see that our book has been donwloaded 11708 times so far.
> The french version is around 70% and apparently some people started a
> translation in spanish. Excellent!
> If you want to help please join, we can also offer svn hostings if
> necessary.
>
> Now we are discussing giving to squeakfoundation a part of the small
> amount of money we make for the
> printed version (but this is not too much and so far merely covered
> the cost of ISBN and other).
>
> What is important is that we would really like to make this book a
> success to show that we do not need publishers
> anymore and that a documentation may exist:
>
> So you can do three things:
>         - buy the book :). The quality of the printed version is quite good.
>         - write new chapters (more costly) for the next volume
>         - translate it to new languages.
>
> Why this is important: because else people will not do it again and I
> would like to have a case to show that this
> is worht the energy (It is a dream because this took us for too much
> time).
>
> Stef
>
>
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> stephane.ducasse at inria.fr
> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr
>
> "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
> different? ...  especially if,  by doing something different, today
> might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
>
>
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