Re: WWW page for our book about Parsing Techniques

Dick Grune (dick@cs.vu.nl) wrote:
: ... our book "Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide".


adrian@platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone) wrote:
> Ellis Horwood ... told me that it is out of print.


This is ridiculous; 2000 copies were printed (says the contract) and
according to my admittedly back-of-the-envelope calculations they have just
sold more than half of that.


> And how come EH didn't tell the poor authors that it was out of
> stock? Sometimes I feel that publishers do not treat their workers too well.


Worse, less than a month ago we received our yearly royalties as usual, for
1993, without any notice of any kind.


We'll certainly look into this; I don't have the papers here and won't be
near them until next Thursday, though.
Dick Grune


Dick Grune | email: dick@cs.vu.nl
Vrije Universiteit | ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick
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[I can report from experience that publishers can be unbelievably confused
and disorganized. Haven't dealt with EH, but academic publishers tend to be
among the worst. -John]
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