Re: Book project

[Robert T. Short]

I tried to pitch "Signal Processing and Communications using Octave" to 
a few publishers.  I didn't try O'Reilly, since I don't think they are a 
serious scientific publisher, but the response was very lukewarm.  
Things like "what about MATLAB?" were common responses.  I put that 
project aside because Wiley accepted a different proposal.

If you want to make a formal book out of the octave user's manual, 
O'Reilly is probably a good choice.  I hope everyone understands that 
writing a book is a monumental effort.  Even redoing the manual into a 
formal publication will be an enormous job.  Very, very worthwhile, but 
a serious effort.

Bob


forkandwait wrote:
> John W. Eaton<jwe<at>  octave.org>  writes:
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> > I think it would be great to have books focused on Octave.  It doesn't
> > matter that there are N books about Matlab.
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> Has anyone in the core group for Octave ever pitched O'Reilly?  It seems like it
> would get be an obvious choice for them ("Open source mathematical programming
> with Octave").  Include a chapter on analyzing server logs with an SVD thing
> like Netflix and it would have immediate appeal to both their core audience and
> all the matlab geeks out there.
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