Author: martin fierz
Date: 09:46:05 12/05/00
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On December 05, 2000 at 09:48:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On December 04, 2000 at 17:31:42, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: > >>Dear Andrew, >> >>>I am sorry I overreacted, but your message to Vincent was not clear to me, >>>either. >> >>I do not think that you over-reacted. Actually, prior to >>your message, it never occurred to me that anybody might >>interpret my posts referring to the book as shameless >>commercial promotions. >> >>Herewith, I sincerely apologize to the CCC community >>for not being more sensible in this respect. >> >>As explained in a previous post in this thread, I do not >>earn serious money from my royalties and the only reason for >>mentioning the book repeatedly was my laziness and lack of >>time to explain the same old stuff over and over again. >> >>=Ernst= > >I find it real bad from the company that it gives so little to you >each version sold, i mean for all the work done on writing such >a book $1.5 knowing little versions will be sold is real bad! > >I mean talking about papercosts and pressing the book is like >$3 at most for the publisher, what did you sign or the scientific >community sign that you earn so little as it's not $3 in the stores! > >Vincent actually this is what happens to all authors: if you are lucky, you get something like 10% of the final book price as royalty, if you have a really big name, say, stephen king, it might be more. but for all 'normal' people who want to get a book published it's rather hard. specially in such areas which have a small readership - take any academic subject - you don't get any real money out of writing a book. one thing should be added: ernst really has a lot of information on his webpages, so you might also find the information on the interior node recognizers there. cheers martin
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