On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:05:46AM -0700, Thomas Widlar wrote:
> If you can get me the URL and permission to have this
> PDF Maxima book printed, I can set this up in about
> ten days if there are no glitches.
The maxima pdf file is in the documentation section of the maxima
website.
> o The basic cost of a 800 page book is about $22. o if we want a
> profit, we should decide what we want amd who gets it (the printer
> gets 20%) o People would order it online with credit card. o They are
> printed on demand and mailed. o Profit is mailed out quarterly.
>
> 800 pages is the maximum size book they can print.
The book is actually 876 pages. Maybe it could be printed in two
volumes. It might be possible to get Abramis to publish the book.
Dr. Myron Evans at http://www.aias.us has expressed an interest in
getting the Maxima manual published since his group uses Maxima to check
their work in general relativity.
>
> --- Alexey Beshenov <al at beshenov.ru> wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 27 April 2008 13:24, Dave Feustel wrote:
> >
> > > I am just beginning to use Maxima and I have been
> > looking for a book on
> > > Maxima. I notice that there is a new 800-page pdf
> > file describing
> > > Maxima-5_15 and I wonder whether this pdf might
> > soon be published as
> > > a book (which I would immediately buy).
> >
> > Is seems that there are no such book at this moment.
> >
> > However, there was an interesting message on this list:
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Maxima
> > manual? Date: Wednesday 10 October 2007 15:55 From: Thomas Widlar
> > <twidlar at yahoo.com> To: Cc: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> >
> > I was asked
> >
> > As far as I can tell there is no commercially available manual
> > for Maxima. Is there any way to get the Maxima manual published
> > as a book?
> >
> > If not, I can set up documentation to be published for about $6 a
> > book plus 2 cents a page plus any profit we want which can then be
> > ordered online with credit card.
> > __________________________________________
> >
> > -- Alexey Beshenov <al at beshenov.ru> http://beshenov.ru/
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