| Subject | Re: [Firebird-general] Re: New Book about FB 2.0 ?? |
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| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2004-10-17T00:50:24Z |
At 06:29 PM 16/10/2004 +0000, Darin Vanatta wrote:
first printing was 3500. They weren't happy about doing such a big book.
The day it was due to go to the printer, they decided to remove all of the
appendices and the glossary. The solution I rapidly arranged made them
even less happy and the next day they put them back in.
I haven't heard from the publisher except through responses to questions
about the stock-outs in Europe and Australia, the lack of distribution in
South Africa, the typos, the missing items in the table of contents, a
pending translation deal that I heard of through the grapevine, and
regarding a copy of the book that was sold with the first 47 pages missing.
(Ja, no cheques!!)
In one of the early responses (17 August) regarding the delay in getting
any copies to Europe or other places (caused by a distributor stuff-up in
New York) the editor expressed surprise that the figures they were seeing
at that point (700-800 in the first two weeks) only reflected sales in the
US. He didn't even know that no copies had yet left the US.
Apress know that Firebird 2 is coming up. They have first offing on the
second edition. There's nothing to talk about until Fb 2 goes into beta
but I have quite a few reservations about the page and book layout that
Apress uses and refuses to vary. In many ways, it doesn't work for our
book and that won't get better if Apress does the second edition.
At this point we don't even know what's in and what's not. We also have to
take Vulcan into account, since there will be quite a long period where Fb
2 and Vulcan will be alternative upgrade options for 1.5. I can see
difficulties in slotting them into Apress's format.
btw, regarding the stockouts, apparently Apress has no control over
them. It's a JIT system - reprints occur when the distributors tell them
stock has run out. A print run takes about 7 working days. They don't do
the inky bits themselves - they send the final stuff to a third-party
printing house. I'm not informed when a reprint is run.
Helen
>How has the book's sales been? Anyone know if it has matched theNobody tells the author anything. As for the publisher's expectations, the
>publisher's expectations?
first printing was 3500. They weren't happy about doing such a big book.
The day it was due to go to the printer, they decided to remove all of the
appendices and the glossary. The solution I rapidly arranged made them
even less happy and the next day they put them back in.
I haven't heard from the publisher except through responses to questions
about the stock-outs in Europe and Australia, the lack of distribution in
South Africa, the typos, the missing items in the table of contents, a
pending translation deal that I heard of through the grapevine, and
regarding a copy of the book that was sold with the first 47 pages missing.
(Ja, no cheques!!)
In one of the early responses (17 August) regarding the delay in getting
any copies to Europe or other places (caused by a distributor stuff-up in
New York) the editor expressed surprise that the figures they were seeing
at that point (700-800 in the first two weeks) only reflected sales in the
US. He didn't even know that no copies had yet left the US.
Apress know that Firebird 2 is coming up. They have first offing on the
second edition. There's nothing to talk about until Fb 2 goes into beta
but I have quite a few reservations about the page and book layout that
Apress uses and refuses to vary. In many ways, it doesn't work for our
book and that won't get better if Apress does the second edition.
At this point we don't even know what's in and what's not. We also have to
take Vulcan into account, since there will be quite a long period where Fb
2 and Vulcan will be alternative upgrade options for 1.5. I can see
difficulties in slotting them into Apress's format.
btw, regarding the stockouts, apparently Apress has no control over
them. It's a JIT system - reprints occur when the distributors tell them
stock has run out. A print run takes about 7 working days. They don't do
the inky bits themselves - they send the final stuff to a third-party
printing house. I'm not informed when a reprint is run.
Helen