[SystemSafety] Fwd: Re: New book

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Self-publish. It seems the only way - in the UK - to achieve a reasonable price. The Club has had a good experience in publishing its Symposium '13  Proceedings.
Felix.


On 15 Apr 2013, at 14:22, SPRIGGS, John J wrote:

> My publisher offers softback print-on-demand textbooks at a lower price to students (under certain conditions); unfortunately my intended main audience is engineers, who are not eligible for the offer and who cannot afford the hardback...
> 
> Self-publish next time?
> 
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: systemsafety-bounces at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of Peter Bernard Ladkin
> Sent: 15 April 2013 13:00
> To: systemsafety at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
> Subject: [SystemSafety] Fwd: Re: New book
> 
> On 4/15/13 12:10 PM, jean-louis Boulanger wrote:
>>  Safety Management of Software-based Equipment
>> 
>> Autor : jean-Louis Boulanger
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> But the price: £63.50 / €76.20  :-(  I don't know any students who would afford that.
> 
> That is an issue I haven't solved. I was quoted an asking price of £75 from a major publisher for my
> 2001 book Causal System Analysis, knew none of my students would ever pay, so I printed hard-bound
> hard copies privately for the university library and for people who wanted them, at a quarter the
> price, and left it on-line.
> 
> On other other hand, I don't know how to do that much better. The Fukushima book is currently being
> negotiated to cost about €40 (hard copy or electronic).
> 
> John Spriggs has a book out on GSN with Springer:
> http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4471-2312-5/page/1  Felix Redmill reviewed it in a
> recent edition of Safety Systems, and remarked on the steep price.
> 
> John Knight does best. His 2012 book http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439862551 costs about
> £32 = €37.50
> 
> PBL
> 
> Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany
> Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de
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