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tchow

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Since: Aug 18, 2008
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:26 pm
Post subject: Getting out-of-print books back into print
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Recently, at my suggestion, Klaus Schmid started a website where people
can vote for which out-of-print mathematics books they want to see come
back into print:

http://outofprintmath.blogspot.com

The story behind this site is explained here:

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/timothy-chow-out-of-print-math-books

The site has been quite successful so far, given its modest aims, and I am
now thinking about how to extend the idea to *all* out-of-print books.
Building such a site is beyond my own (and Schmid's) capabilities, and in
any case may not be the right idea---the right idea may be to get buy-in
from an existing book website.

Does anybody here have the right contacts at those site? Or failing that,
is anyone interested in building such a site from scratch?
--
Tim Chow tchow-at-alum-dot-mit-dot-edu
The range of our projectiles---even ... the artillery---however great, will
never exceed four of those miles of which as many thousand separate us from
the center of the earth. ---Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

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cycjec

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:46 am
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tchow DeleteThis @lsa.umich.edu wrote:
> http://outofprintmath.blogspot.com

A dream come true. Well, to some extent.

> The site has been quite successful so far, given its modest aims, and I am
> now thinking about how to extend the idea to *all* out-of-print books.

Maybe confine it to OOP science/technical books?

There's a pharmacology book I really want.

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