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- From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
- Subject: Re: need `ML for Working Programmer'
- Message-ID: <NICKH.92Sep8102218@VOILA.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:22:18 GMT
- Article-I.D.: VOILA.NICKH.92Sep8102218
- References: <1992Sep3.163635.6941@cabell.vcu.edu>
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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- In-Reply-To: dresler@cabell.vcu.edu's message of 3 Sep 92 16:36:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.163635.6941@cabell.vcu.edu> dresler@cabell.vcu.edu (Dan Resler) writes:
-
- I have just been told by a representative of Cambridge University
- Press that the _entire_ printing of `ML for the Working Programmer'
- has been "frozen" indefinitely (i.e. they're not shipping and they
- don't know why or when they'll ship again). Does anyone know why or for
- how long they'll be unavailable? I was planning on using it for one of
- my texts this term; can anyone suggest a bookstore that might have
- a few copies and be willing to ship? Thanks.
-
- Well, I read this and contacted a friend in the STM group of CUP in
- Cambridge, puzzled; like several people on this newsgroup, I had some
- involvement in the production of Paulson, and had heard nothing. This
- is the reply:
-
- > Paulson frozen? Nope. The paperback (with corrections) exists
- > and is selling like hot cakes. However you probably can't get
- > it yet in the US of A, and probably won't until next year sometime.
- > Our marketing in NY tells me that the demand in the US is
- > for hardcover not paperback books, so we're selling the second
- > printing in hardcover there.
-
- So there you go. From the horse's mouth, as it were. You shouldn't
- have any trouble getting hold of the hardcover (or the paperback if
- you're in the UK). If you do have any difficulties, contact me and I
- can make further enquiries (with the CUP people in NY, for instance).
-
- Nick Haines nickh@cs.cmu.edu
-