<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">yes, academic publishing, indeed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as an alternative, in case anyone wants to avail themselves of this resource....several years ago a colleague and i wrote a <a href="http://saasbook.info" class="">textbook</a> and after much deliberation decided to self-publish rather than work with an academic or professional-press publisher. result: we own the content; print book is under $30 (~500 pp); kindle edition is $9.99. lots of copies sold and good response. and because we own it, we're free to gift PDFs or whatever to students who truly can't afford it, to make our own arrangements for translations, to allow repackaging the book in other ways, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">we <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxsb25nbGFzdGluZ3NvZnR3YXJlfGd4OjdjYmU3ZTI2MTc4NjI0NGU" class="">wrote about</a> our experience doing this (pros and cons) for other academic colleagues, and <a href="http://github.com/armandofox/latex2ebook" class="">open-sourced the toolchain</a> that does most of the work of converting a single set of LaTeX files into both a handsome PDF suitable for printing-on-demand and a Kindle edition. tl;dr if you are reasonably skilled with LaTeX then you can do what we did.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">fight the power!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 9, 2019, at 21:38, Ian S. King <<a href="mailto:isking@uw.edu" class="">isking@uw.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Evan, welcome to academic publishing. :-( </div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:46 PM Evan Koblentz <<a href="mailto:evan@vcfed.org" class="">evan@vcfed.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="">On 12/9/19 7:20 PM, William Aspray
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You may be interested in the recent publication of Peter A.
Freeman, W. Richards Adrion, and William Aspray,<i class="">
Computing and the National Science Foundation, 1950-2016:
Building a Foundation for Modern Computing</i> (ACM Books, 2019,
407 pp.).
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<div class="">Thanks to Janet Abbate, Tom Haigh, and Jeff Yost for
serving on the historical advisory committee for the project;
and Tom Misa for shepherding the book through the publication
process. NSF supported the project with a grant but did not have
any editorial control over the content.</div>
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<div class="">The project resulted in approximately 5,000
documents and 50 oral histories being deposited at the Babbage
Institute. These materials will eventually be available for
scholarly use once the collection has been processed.</div>
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<div class="">-Bill Aspray</div>
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</p><p class="">Sounds great, but the price is outrageous:</p><p class=""><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Computing-National-Science-Foundation-1950-2016/dp/1450372775" target="_blank" class="">https://www.amazon.com/Computing-National-Science-Foundation-1950-2016/dp/1450372775</a></p>
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