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- Subject: Computer/Cable Book Authors Wanted
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 13:53:34 GMT
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- Adler & Robin Books, Inc.
- 3409 29th Street, N.W.
- Washington, DC 20008
- adlerbks@clark.net
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/adlerbooks
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- LITERARY AGENCY LOOKING FOR COMPUTER BOOKS
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- We are eagerly looking for books on these subjects:
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- Collabra Share
- Groupware
- Cable Television Standards
- Standards for Integrating Computer Data, Telephones and Cable
- Sending Data Over Cable
- Connecting Computers Through Cable Television
- Wireless Networks
- Data Warehousing
- Data Mining
- Jasmine
- Live Wire Pro
- Implementing WANs
- ODBC
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- To introduce ourselves, we are literary agents. Over the past 30
- years we and our affiliate agency in New York City have been
- responsible for literally hundreds of books, many of them national
- bestsellers.
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- We are also the leading literary agency for computer books.
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- We have represented Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Dick Clark, Helen
- Hayes, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Senator Gary Hart, Senator
- William Cohen, Jeff Smith (The Frugal Gourmet), Mr. Food, Larry King,
- Mickey Mantle, Nolan Ryan, PelĪ, Phil Donahue, Howard Cosell, Robert
- MacNeil, Sally Jesse Raphael, Steve Allen, Tom Shales, Tom Seaver,
- Willard Scott and others.
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- Some of the computer books we have represented include: Developing
- Applications with Clarion for Windows, The Computer Support
- Directory, Kidnet: The Kids' Guide to Cyberspace, Dr. Tom Linden's
- Guide to On Line Medicine, The Complete Guide To The World Wide Web
- on Prodigy, LotusNotes Certification Study Guide, The McGraw-Hill
- Internet Training Manual, The McGraw-Hill Web Training Guide,
- Enhancing Your Own Netscape Web Pages, Managing and Tuning
- Distributed Databases, VMRL Programming, Internet Programming with
- Java, Intranets, Programming HTML, Advanced Java Programming, The
- African-American Resource Guide to the Internet, The Common Sense
- Guide to Computer Security, and others.
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- We have been responsible for negotiating contracts that are highly
- favorable to our clients: Higher advances, better subsidiary rights,
- copyright ownership, a better royalty rate, and a more favorable
- revisions clause, are some of the changes we have brought about in
- our clients' contracts, for example.
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- We are also actively looking for books on these topics(in addition to
- the ones we mentioned above: Virtual LANs, Remote LAN Access
- (providing, securing, etc.), 3-D Web Worlds (e.g., VRML), Intranet
- Interfaces, IETF Electronic Commerce Security Protocols, Network
- Optimization, Client/Server Toolkits (with shareware/freeware or a
- CD-ROM), Intranetting Intranets (as an alternative to Groupware),
- UNIX Programming, Implementing WANs, Moving to Client/Server Systems,
- Multimedia Client/Server Networks, Collabra Share, Data Warehousing,
- Data Mining, Jasmine, Interent-3D Environments, Managing and
- Implementing Mobile Computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC),
- Cable TV Technology, Cellular Telephony, and advanced programming
- titles.
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- We would be very interested in seeing a proposal on these titles.
- (We can email you a short guide to writing computer book proposals.)
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- Please feel free to email or call me at adlerbks@clark.net or
- badler@cis.compuserve.com.
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- Sincerely,
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- Bill Adler, Jr.
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- Bill Adler, Jr.
- Adler & Robin Books Literary Agency
- 3409 29th Street, N.W.
- Washington, DC 20008
- 202-363-7410
- badler@cis.compuserve.com
- adlerbks@clark.net
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/adlerbooks
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- "Number 1 in New York Times Bestsellers"
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- "America's Leading Literary Agency for
- Computer Books"
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