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Re: Book project
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forkandwait |
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Re: Book project |
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Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:01:28 +0000 (UTC) |
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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 ;)
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