Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ctrsol!lll-winken!arisia!siggraph From: siggraph@arisia.Xerox.COM (Rick Beach SIGGRAPH Editor-in-Chief) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH'89 proceedings are late, but on their way Summary: Lost art show catalogs found; explaining bookstore copies Keywords: SIGGRAPH Message-ID: <3673@arisia.Xerox.COM> Date: 23 Oct 89 02:47:16 GMT References: <3637@arisia.Xerox.COM> <5016@cps3xx.UUCP> Reply-To: siggraph@arisia.UUCP (Rick Beach SIGGRAPH Editor-in-Chief) Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Lines: 18 [[Sorry, but PARC was off the air for a few days due to the Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California. This is a delayed response. RJB]] To clarify the situation, here are a few more details about shipping the SIGGRAPH proceedings. 1. The misplaced copies were the SIGGRAPH'89 art show catalogs; we have had lots of conference proceedings all along but we wanted to ship both in the same box. 2. The screw-up has been discovered -- a miscount of the shipment at the mailing house. 13,000 art show catalogs were shipped on 2 pallets of different sizes; the smaller pallet was counted and the number doubled, revealing that 2,000 copies were missing. When the paper trail appeared to be normal, the count of indivual boxes was retaken -- oops -- a very embarrassed mailing house!!! 3. The mailing is underway with utmost haste. 4. The bookstore copies are from an arrangement with ACM Press and Addison-Wesley, who distributes the SIGGRAPH conference proceedings through booksellers. I think the price is about $49. And because they only distribute about 1,000 copies, obviously it can be done more quickly. SIGGRAPH is acutely aware of the problems in shipping conference proceedings after the conference. About 5 years ago, we switched to individual boxes to protect the heavy proceedings from damage during shipping. After long delays two years ago, we switched mailing houses to one that could get sufficient labor to box and ship 13,000 proceedings. Last year we got the proceedings mailed in a timely fashion (they still take a couple of weeks because we use fourth class postage in the USA). This year, we go t sidetracked because we wanted to ship 2 books (the proceedings and the art show catalog) together and it looked like we had lost 2,000 catalogs. Grrrr... Richard J. Beach SIGGRAPH Editor-in-chief