RE: [Haskell] Idea for the Haskell Store
Good idea! At least, good idea if anyone wants to organise it. I'm optimistic that copyright issues could be worked out, but it needs an animating spirit to decide what should be available, line up POD services, decide pricing etc. Any volunteers? Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of John Meacham | Sent: 02 June 2004 17:15 | To: haskell@haskell.org | Subject: [Haskell] Idea for the Haskell Store | | There are a lot of very good books and papers out there on haskell or | related topics which are no longer in print or not convieniently available in | paper form to people without university access. | | I was thinking it would be very very cool if we could sign up with one | of the POD (Print on demand) services to offer useful books and | collections of papers printed on demand for haskell enthusiasts. A | print on demand publisher works just like amazon or any other online | bookseller, but actually prints out the books as needed so can deal | just as effectivly with small orders as big ones, modern technology has | made the cost comparable to traditional mass-produced books and an order | of magnitude better quality and cost over getting the stuff printed and | bound at kinkos or similar. | | some things which I would LOVE to see offered would be stuff like | | http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~boquist/phd/index.html | peyton jones's thesis on GHC optimization | http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Logic/book/ | http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/Papers/pj-lester-book/ | various collections of papers by author phillip wadler, simon peyton | jones, simon marlow, etc.. or based on topics like 'the monad papers' | or 'generic haskell anthology' or 'a tale of ten pretty printers' | | any other ideas? | | There will probably be some copyright issues to work out, but anything | would be great. It could be done non-profit or having the profit flow | back to the authors or into the maintenence of the haskell site or other | worthy haskell projects (or decided on a book-by-book basis I imagine) | | John | | -- | John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ | _______________________________________________ | Haskell mailing list | Haskell@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:39:27PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Good idea! At least, good idea if anyone wants to organise it. I'm optimistic that copyright issues could be worked out, but it needs an animating spirit to decide what should be available, line up POD services, decide pricing etc. Any volunteers?
It apperas that cafepress.com, the company we currently use to sell haskell t-shirts and mugs ( http://haskell.org/merchandise.html) also does POD printing! the costs seem reasonable, we would probably be looking at roughly $7-12 raw cost per book depending on pages and quality desired. All that is needed is a pdf in one of several formats (letter, not sure if they do A4) and a cover format and then you can just order it :) perhaps whoever already maintains the haskell cafepress store can see about setting up some books, perhaps the pj-lester book would be a good start, since its TeX is nicely available for rerunning to create a pdf in the appropriate size. If the current maintainer isn't interested, I can go ahead and set up a shop for the books myself, or be given access to the main cafepress account. (whatever is easier). I think, once we have the basics down, i.e. we can order the pj-lester book (or some other suitable starting book) and get a copy, we can start the more involved work of putting together paper anthologies and hunting down copyright holders of obsure out of print works and begging them to let us make the works available. :) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈
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