home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!planchet.rutgers.edu!nanotech
- From: ttf@iti.org (Tihamer T. Toth-Fejel)
- Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
- Subject: technical book "Nanosystems"
- Message-ID: <Aug.21.18.17.33.1992.20149@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 22:17:34 GMT
- Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu
- Lines: 39
- Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu
-
- RE: Nanosystems:
- On Friday, 8/14/92, 40MB of PostScript was shipped to John
- Wiley & Sons
-
- The anticipated price is around US $25, a marvelously
- low price for such a comprehensive technical handbook.
-
- This low price was achieved by Eric's relentless efforts in
- Desktop Publishing to provide the printers with a camera-ready
- product. Thank you very much for your hard work!
- I'll second that thank you!
-
- However, being the computer geek that I am, I have to ask
- the obvious question - when is the electronic version
- going to become available, and should it not cost less
- than $25? If it does not, then maybe something is wrong with
- Eric's (and Ted Nelson, and everyone else's) predictions
- about hypertext. Even AMIX charges between $1 to $500
- per document, there is a $50 setup fee (not applicable
- in a bookstore or library), not to mention the $5-10 monthly
- fee (whether or not you use it) and the $3-8 hourly connect rate
- (plus telephone costs and the whole overhead costs of
- buying and owning a computer. Boy, the more I think about it,
- the more depressed I get. I am not a business type whatsoever,
- nor a lawyer, but I think they might have a better idea
- of what an electronic version of Nanosystems should cost
- in order to be competetive with a book.
- I guess its hard to put a value-added dollar price on
- being able to grep through a book, but we do have a pretty
- good idea of the MIPS/$ and RAM/$ curves, so that might
- help decide when hypertext is really going to take off
- (though I have no idea how much the social hysterisis
- will slow things down at the beginning).
-
-
- ttf@iti.org (Tihamer T. Toth-Fejel)
- Industrial Technology Institute, P.O. Box 1485, Ann Arbor, MI 48106
- office: (313) 769-4248 fax: (313) 769-4064 home: (313) 662-4741
- *----*----*----*Think of it as evolution in action*----*----*----*----*
-