From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:42:12 -0800 From: Micah Stetson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <95b310369a4b02c9313b1f788cc34de7@peerllc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <95b310369a4b02c9313b1f788cc34de7@peerllc.com> Subject: [9fans] Fwd: [Lions Commentary] Lions' Commentary on UNIX - Updated availability information Topicbox-Message-UUID: 59524510-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peer Customer Messages 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 lulu.com, which is a venture of Red Hat Linux founder Bob Young. This edition is *not* available through bookstores. Our new website 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 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