At 10:50 AM 17/10/2004 +1000, I wrote:

>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.

Someone was watching. :-)) Today I got an email from the open source
editor at Apress, to say they have a reprint run starting at the end of
this week. :-)

Helen