Re: OT - 68K Cross-compiler up for download

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On Mar 24, 11:20 am, rtk <oneelkr...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > publisher. I have ceased to enjoy working with my existing publisher
> > (Elsevier Science), and besides they don't handle this type of book.
>
> What are the titles of your other books?  As an aside, what do you

Look at <http://www.larwe.com/writing/>, cover thumbnails down the
left-hand side. And links to many, but not all, of my published
articles.

> think of places like lulu.com?

Fine, if you want to self-publish and you fully understand what you
can and cannot expect out of the exercise. Getting a book into the
world and making it profitable involves a lot of promotion, though. A
real publisher will distribute copies to important people, will take
them to trade shows, will offer them in their academic catalogs, will
actively make sure Amazon and B&N and {...} have the book on their
websites and in stock in their warehouses. A real publisher will have
a legal department ready to go after that unauthorized Indian
translation of your book. Etc, etc. IMHO self-publishing is primarily
a vanity industry.

To put it another way: If I can't convince a publisher that my book
idea is worth printing, why would I believe that I can convince
customers in the street to buy it?

Not to mention that a real publisher will pay an advance, which can be
used to offset the cost of research materials (fairly costly in the
case of some of my writing; the PS3-Linux articles I wrote for IBM
cost me the best part of $1000 to set up. Similarly for the Mac Mini
articles I had to buy a Mac Mini and associated hardware).

If I was going to write something extremely specialized, either for
gift purposes or for a very select audience, and I expected only low
sales volumes, I would consider self-publication. I've contemplated
doing a vintage computing coffee table book this way. However, I would
work with this firm, since I know the participants - <http://
www.borregopublishing.com/>.