Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] books about GNU Radio

[Steve Mcmahon]

John:
No one is trying to violate copyright here (at least I am not). I think people 
are just trying to obtain good resources. I don't understand why McGraw Hill 
would announce but then never publish Cory Clark's book. I assume the book was 
completely written, but then they didn't want to publish it at the end. That 
seems stupid of them to do. It robs the community of a potentially good 
resource, and it only encourages piracy. They should have at least published it 
as a PDF e-book or something. It would have sold as well as any other SDR book. 
Anyway, I am certainly interested in purchasing the book, if I can find it.

Adi:
Are you saying that you can find Cory Clark's book at 
http://www.downarchive.com/? Perhaps there is a way to contact Cory Clark 
himself to obtain/purchase a copy in PDF format? I did a google search for him, 
and all I can find is the following:

1. "Cory L. Clark is a senior software engineer with Motorola and has developed 
many LabVIEW-based DSP tools. He holds a master's degree in electrical 
engineering from Georgia Tech."

2. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cory-clark/5/794/145

3. 
http://www.amazon.com/LabVIEW-Digital-Signal-Processing-Communications/dp/0071444920/

I ask people to please post any more information they can find. Perhaps we, as 
a community, could ask Cory Clark (if we can contact him) if he could 
provide/sell his manuscript in PDF format, unless McGraw Hill retains the 
rights to it, and would prohibit him from selling it or distributing it on his 
own. He could self-publish it on Lulu.com for any price he would like (I have 
bought several good and very-reasonably-priced technical books in PDF format 
from there before).

For example:
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/signal-processing-techniques-for-software-radios-2nd-edition/11905545?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/3

Steve McMahon



--- On Sat, 11/27/10, John McKendry <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: John McKendry <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] books about GNU Radio
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010, 6:11 PM
>
>  I am not a lawyer, but that looks to
> me like a very clear violation
> of copyright, and I want no part of it. Buy the books if
> you're going
> to use them. The authors deserve to be paid for their work.
> You can
> always return the books if they're really not useful.
> 
> John
> 
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Adi Andrei <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Both books are available through http://www.downarchive.com
> > Search for the names, it will take you to links where
> you can download them.
> > Try before you buy :)
> >
> > Adi
> >
> >
> > On 27/11/2010 22:13, John McKendry wrote:
> >>
> >>  The Cory Clark book was announced but never
> published - Amazon's "out
> >> of print" designation is kind of misleading on
> that score. I know of
> >> two books that specifically address GNU Radio and
> the USRP:
> >> "Artificial Intelligence in Wireless
> Communications" by Tom Rondeau
> >> and Charles Bostian,
> >>
> >> http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Wireless-Communications-Mobile/dp/1607832348/
> >> ,
> >> and "Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks:
> Principles and
> >> Practice" by Alex Wyglinski, Maziar Nekovee, and
> Thomas Hou,
> >>
> >> http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Wireless-Communications-Mobile/dp/1607832348/
> >> .
> >>
> >>  I am working on cognitive ad-hoc networks, and I
> have found both of
> >> them very useful. Whether you will find them
> equally useful depends on
> >> your technical background and on what you want to
> accomplish with GNU
> >> Radio, so you should take advantage of Amazon's
> "Look Inside" feature.
> >> Neither book is intended as a textbook on GNU
> Radio and the USRP,
> >> although the Wyglinski book is closer to that than
> the
> >> Rondeau/Bostian. I'm a software engineer with a
> ham license, but I
> >> have coworkers who can help me fill in the gaps in
> my
> >> signal-processing knowledge.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Steve Mcmahon
> >> <address@hidden>
>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm looking for a book on GNU Radio,
> >>> and the only thing that I can find is this
> book:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.amazon.com/Software-Defined-Radio-GNU-USRP/dp/0071498834
> >>>
> >>> However, it is out of print. Does anyone know
> how I might be able to
> >>> obtain a paper or PDF copy of the book? Does
> anyone have a used copy for
> >>> sale?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Steve McMahon
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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