I'd suggest that before giving it away for free check the options of
books on demand which is really a good option. You can have an ISBN for
the book and have good chances to appear on Amazon and the like. Books
on demand aren't too expensive, you can start with ca. 300 EUROs. There
are quite some examples of succesful books which have been published
this way.

If stephane would not want to earn money with the book, he still could
help funding the Squeak project or other Smalltalk/Education related
efforts.

To some extent, there still seems to be a broad base for opinions like
"if it costs nothing, it's worth nothing". The intended audience for
the book to me seems to be a group of people who like to read a book
(and make notes in it) rather than downloading a pdf.

Just my 2 cents, possibly worth nothing...

Joachim


Serge Stinckwich <Serge.Stinckwich at info.unicaen.fr> schrieb am
22.09.2004, 10:21:06:
> 
> Le 22 sept. 04, à 09:47, stéphane ducasse a écrit :
> > Now I would like to know:
> > 	- whether you have any contact with other editor in other publishing 
> > companies.
> > 	- whether you have ideas how to publish this book (may be with a 
> > print on demand system).
> > 	- whether you would be interested to prove read my english if I just 
> > put the pdf on the web.
> >
> 
> I would like to thank Stéphane for this great work. We already using 
> for teaching Smalltalk as a first CS language, part of his book 
> materials and we would like to continue.
> 
> Stéphane, if you found no editor, please put your book under a free 
> publishing licence in order to foster an education community around.
> 
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