Author: Pete Galati
Date: 17:56:39 04/29/00
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On April 29, 2000 at 20:17:20, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >Dear Frank, > >>a good idea is to write a new book about computer chess. Here I think that 100 >>people or more can wrote good articels for a new book. > >I do not think that a lack of ideas or determination to write >is the crucial problem here. > >But finding a good publisher for a book in an "obscure" specialty >area such as computer chess surely is. > >However, the emerging trend of "books on demand" might change this >difficult situation for supposedly low-volume titles. > >=Ernst= For a basic idea about part of what Ernst is talking about, try going to http://www.amazon.com and doing a search for "computer chess". It's very aggrivating that the largest amount of books that you'll find will be Publisher Is Out Of Stock _or_ Out Of Print. To most of us, that doesn't seem like it should be considered an obscure area, right? But my guess is that when you bring an idea to a publisher like publishing a book on computer Chess, no matter what your focus is on computer Chess, that the publisher has to _first_ look into the track record of that type of book, and then notice that the vast majority are out of print, so he'll say how much of a risk do I take here? _I_ find it very odd that Dover books has not bought the rights to and reprinted any of Levy's books. Why would that be? They have a very large variety of Chess books, some of them are classics, and some of them are very _low_ quality books too, But Levy has authored a large assortment of books, some of them are labeled that he wrote them himself, and some are co-authored. And they're _all_ out of print (unless I missed some), It's hard for me to imagine Dover not being interested in them. Pete
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