[Axiom-developer] [AxiomFoundation] publishing of "Axiom - The 30 Year Horizon" at Lulu

[Page, Bill]

Members, et al.

Ok in my official capacity as Secretary to the Foundation, since
both Tim Daly and NAG (aka Mike Dewar) apparently agree to the
idea of publishing the new Axiom book at http://www.lulu.com ,
I would like to seek approval from the members of the Axiom
Foundation to proceed with making the necessary arrangements.

Would the members please let me know at least *positive* or
*negative* as soon as you get a chance? Thanks.

... And of course I was wondering if there were any volunteers
who would like to step forward to help me with doing this? :))

One issue that will have to be decided is what price to attach
to the sale of the book. I did a quick calculation based on
a size of 1000 pages and a royalty of $20 based on the information
at

  http://www.lulu.com/static/on-demand-books2.php

and I got a price of just under $50 per single copy. The
Foundation would recieve $20 from each sale. Does that sound
reasonable? Do you think I did the calculation correctly?

Regards,
Bill Page.

On Friday, November 26, 2004 5:17 AM Mike Dewar wrote:

> I don't think that NAG would object, provided that the terms
> of the license were complied with (which is only that the copyright
> notices and license text appear in the book, e.g. on the same page
> as the Library of Congress/ISBN metadata).
> 
> I would also hope that the original contributors, particularly the
> principle authors Dick Jenks and Bob Sutor, were acknowledged in
> an appropriate way.
>
> Keep up the good work!
>
>Cheers, Mike.

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:15:32PM -0500, Tim Daly wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> Not a bad idea, actually.
> 
> >The Axiom Foundation (with Tim's and possibly NAG's approval
> >of course) could offer the new book for sale through Lulu.
> 
> The book is partially composed of text released under the
> Modifed-BSD license, partially composed of some text by
> Martin Dunstan (the tutorial), who gave me permission to use
> and freely republish it under the Modified-BSD.
> 
> The picture on the front (Blue Bayou) is by Jocelyn Guidry
> (http://www.jocelynguidry.com) and I have her permission to freely
> distribute it under the Modified-BSD.
> 
> The rest of the text, including composing it into tex, typesetting
> the equations, etc. was written by me and I give the same permission
> to use work under the Modified-BSD.
> 
> Of course, the graphics chapter needs work as does the cross reference
> information in the back.  There is no such thing as a simple job.
> 
> Perhaps we could even cut a deal with the cheap CD place to include
> a CD with Axiom on it. 
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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