I am sure Prentice Hall has a standard deep discount for authors. Springer does 30%, no questions asked for anyone who has a paper in their conference proceedings, as far as I know (I have my name on several Springer LNCS Artificial Evolution covers).
btw, my suggestion is not really a joke, Prentice Hall will get their share and more if we do a direct buy, the authors/editors will not be deprived of their cut; only Amazon etc will be impeded from price gouging, we can live with that.
Prentice would probably be prepared to ship a case of these books to ESUG *really* cheaply, if you ask them now.
Edmund
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Bijan Parsia wrote:
--On Monday, August 13, 2001 7:49 PM +0200 Edmund Ronald eronald@cmapx.polytechnique.fr wrote:
Sounds like maybe the authors should purchase copies at a discount,
Where? Where? I can't seem to purchase them *at all*.
and the sell them to people on the list, and sell at amazon price,thereby making money off the work they did. If people here want to make a list for such a purpose, my money is on the table.
How about autographed copies? With errata? ("Damn it, it's *Bijan*, not "Bjarne"!! How could *I* get it wrong!?!?!?") With little crude drawings of what might be a mouse or hedgehog or really fuzzy snake? :)
Cheers, Bijan Parsia.