Re: all the good books are OOP

On 2005-09-26, Allan Adler <ara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Devlin's Aspects of Constructibility,
> Barwise's Admissible Sets and Structures
> Fremlin's Consequences of Martin's Axiom
> are all out of print.
> What does one read instead?

You have a point. The old model for publishing isn't working
anymore. A new model is needed. Authors do their own
typesetting these days in Latex, so that is new. Printing
and binding can be done without much trouble. But the
problem is *marketing*. Elsevier can do marketing, but
at high cost. If sales don't justify the cost, then the
book is dropped.

In the brave new world, what will be the system for publishing
books with small markets -- such as logic books?

--Herb Enderton

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