[Coco] Update on CoCo Book

[Ronivon Costa]

Just put my pre-order on Amazon UK.

:)

On 13 September 2013 00:07, Sylvain Rousseau <surtoutnombliepas at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> I just pre-ordered one too!
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> Sylvain
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> Envoyé de mon ASUS Pad
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> William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> a écrit :
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>>On 2013-09-12 15:58, Boisy Pitre wrote:
>>> I'll follow up Bill's post with a "ditto." What we're after is to show the publisher that there is a market for this type of work.
>>>
>>> Bill can correct me if I'm wrong, but most books of this type which document the history of other platforms (Commodore, Atari, etc) have been self-published ventures. In our case, we landed a very reputable publisher, Taylor & Francis. This is quite an accomplishment given the landscape.
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>>> To their credit, they took a bit of a risk on this book, which is very different from their ordinary offering of highly technical, higher education text books. By sheer determination (and some luck), Bill and I sold them on the idea, and so here we are.
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>>> Now we're doing everything to make sure that it's a success and sells well, because if it is, it's also a success for the CoCo community, as well as the broader retro-computing scene.
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>>For those of us in Canada, amazon.ca has it, too, currently listed at
>>CA$36.41 which is reasonable given the currency differential. It also
>>qualifies for "Free Super Saver Shipping". Got my pre-order in.
>>Apparently delivery is estimated for between December 20th and December
>>30th.
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>>I wouldn't be surprised to find that other versions of Amazon also have
>>it listed.
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