Thanks to Evan for checking up on the status of the e-book. While MIT Press remains far and away the best place to publish a book of this kind, some recent personnel changes and resultant turmoil there came just at the wrong moment for our book. I think the e-book delay is probably tied to another problem, which is that the person the press hired to do the indexing (as per our contract) never produced an index. We were told that she had just stopped replying to emails. So back in September the press told us that to have books out by this month's anniversary we had to forgo a subject index in the print edition. As Penn was already planning to use the book as the centerpiece for its anniversary event that seemed like a better option than a further delay from the originally promised publication date of October 2015. We've been promised that an index will be ready this month, and made available online for download by purchasers of the print edition. A PDF index would be more useful than a print version anyway, as it's searchable. My understanding is that the index will be incorporated into the e-book edition, which is presumably why it's delayed as this complicates the usual production process. Hopefully there will be a Kindle version, which is a different thing from the MIT e-book, but that would be in the hands of Amazon and I don't think could happen until after MIT makes its own electronic version. Best wishes, Tom -----Original Message----- From: Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Evan Koblentz Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 10:27 AM To: thaigh@computer.org; members@sigcis.org Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] ENIAC in Action - book, website, and free poster
Looks like the e-book option is not yet available. Web site only shows hardcover when you mouse over 'buying options'. I called MIT Press; they said they'll check and reply soon.
They called back and said the e-book option won't be available until early April. _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org