Re: Expert needed - McGraw-Hill professional technical book author/contributor
- From: "Joel Kolstad" <JKolstad71HatesSpam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:36:07 -0700
"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You will always have the high-end super specialized market, but the volume
is apparently so small these books are pushing close to $200 average.
I like Hans Camenzind's approach with his IC design book -- it's available
freely as an eBook, or you can get the printed copy on Amazon for all of $22
hardback/$16 paperback. His book is perhaps not as "high-end" as something
like Zverev (hardcover new $285!!! -- but at least paperback is $70) or
Matthaei, Young & Jones ($139 hardcover), but it still demonstrates the point
that technical books don't *have* to be spendy.
I imagine that Tim's new book would have a price tag considerably higher than
$60 if he had published through someone like McGraw-Hill, Wiley, Cambridge
Press, or Artech House rather than Newnes. I've seen some truly awful books
from Newnes that really never should have been published, but I'm willing to
accept that if it means the really good books are considerably cheaper than
going with the "big boys."
I do find it somewhat entertaining that authors such as Rudolf Graf and
Joeseph Carr (and, if we shift to computers rather than electronics, Herbert
Schildt) seem to manage to get what's often more or less the same material
published over and over again in different books! Those guys can sure crank
out pages...
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