[9fans] Fwd: [Lions Commentary] Lions' Commentary on UNIX - Updated availability information

[9fans] Fwd: [Lions Commentary] Lions' Commentary on UNIX - Updated availability information

[Micah Stetson]

Not exactly Plan 9 related....  But I thought there might be some
people here who've wanted a copy of Lions' Commentary but haven't been
able to get one.  It came back into print a while back, but now
they're offering a lay-flat binding.

Micah


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From: Peer Customer Messages <info1@peerllc.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:01:27 -0500
Subject: [Lions Commentary] Lions' Commentary on UNIX - Updated
availability information
To: lionsbook@peerllc.com


A few updates about the availability of "Lions' Commentary on UNIX":

       A)  ** A wire-bound (lay-flat) copy is now available for direct
ordering from Print on Demand vendor Lulu.com
<http://www.lulu.com/content/99701>lulu.com, which is a venture of Red
Hat Linux founder Bob Young. This edition is *not* available through
bookstores. Our new website
<http://www.peerllc.com/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=44> has basic bibliographic
info about the book.

       B)  Bookstore availability--- most bookstores aren't keeping it in
stock, but if they backorder it from Ingram (the national wholesaler
every bookstore deals with) they should have it for you within a week.
Some stores are reluctant to backorder from Ingram, but in this case
Ingram gets stock directly from a  corporate-affiliated company within
3 business days, so it really is safe for the stores to backorder this
title.

Thank you all again for your patience.

PS-- here are highlights of the original announcement in case you
missed them the first time.

        1) WE CANCELLED ALL BACKORDERS for "Lions' Commentary on UNIX".
Your credit card was not nor will be charged. I would have liked to
have been able to fulfill backorders, but given the total absence of
staff or facilities there was no good/economical way to do so.

        2) The price of the book was increased to $39.95. One reason is
that the book is being produced via Print on Demand technology, and the
one-at-a-time printing is more expensive... but this is also the first
price increase since it was first published in 1996.

        3)  A paperback copy can now be ordered through bookstores (who
can get it from book wholesaler Ingram). A list of good technical
bookstores, local and online, is available at:
http://www.oreilly.com/bookstores/us/teamora.html; here are a few from
that list:

Amazon.com/Borders:  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573980137/
Barnes & Noble:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?
ISBN=1573980137&pdf=y
OpAmp:
http://opamp.com/cf/title.cfm?SRow=1&Title=&Author=&ISBN=1-57398-013-7+
San Diego Technical:
http://www.thattechnicalbookstore.com/book.aspx?isbn=1573980137&cp=0
SoftPro:
http://store.yahoo.com/softpro/1-57398-013-7.html

        4) Print on Demand technology can only bind on the long side of
the book, rather than on the short side as was originally done. No one
who has seen it has viewed this as a problem, but we wanted to let you
know.

        5) This spring Peer-to-Peer will release the long-awaited
"Building the ARPANET". Anyone interested in networking or the history
of computing should find the important historical documents gathered in
this collection fascinating. Email me <info@peerllc.com> if you'd like
to be notified when it's ready. An overview is at:
http://www.peerllc.com/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=43

I appreciate the patience and encouraging words so many of you have
expressed as I worked to get this book back into print. MIT still uses
it as an operating system textbook after 30 years, so I'm confident it
will be well worth the wait! It turned out to be a much bigger project
than expected (requiring formation of a new company and working with
two production companies) than I could handle well as an after-hours
project. Apologies for both the long delay and my recent inability to
respond to individual inquiries.

Dan Doernberg
Publisher, Peer-to-Peer Communications LLC
dan@peerllc.com
http://www.peerllc.com