[Coco] Update on CoCo Book

[William Astle]

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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.


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.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that other versions of Amazon also have 
it listed.