Re: Book project

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Robert T. Short <octave <at> phaselockedsystems.com> writes:

> 
> I tried to pitch "Signal Processing and Communications using Octave" to 
> a few publishers.  I didn't try O'Reilly, since I don't think they are a 
> serious scientific publisher, 

I wouldn't pitch a book that scientific to O'Reilly either but there is plenty 
of application of matlab ish approaches without being a sophisticated controls 
type of guy....

> but the response was very lukewarm.  
> Things like "what about MATLAB?" were common responses.  I put that 
> project aside because Wiley accepted a different proposal.

... However, I imagine the open source version of Matlab angle would interest 
them a great deal. 

> If you want to make a formal book out of the octave user's manual, 
> O'Reilly is probably a good choice. 

Well, I am not so sure about that.  The manual is already available to purchase 
printed.  O'Reilly books are also more practical and tutorial oriented then the 
manual, which is more reference oriented.

> I hope everyone understands that 
> writing a book is a monumental effort.  Even redoing the manual into a 
> formal publication will be an enormous job.  Very, very worthwhile, but 
> a serious effort.

Indeed, I am not pitching it ;)