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From: pallas@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Joe Pallas)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: ECOOP '89 Proceedings
Keywords: outrageous
Message-ID: <1990Apr8.014624.15649@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Apr 90 01:46:24 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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I've been looking for the ECOOP '89 proceedings for a long time.  The
'87 and '88 proceedings were published by Springer-Verlag, but not the
'89 proceedings.  For a long time that's all I knew.

The Stanford bookstore has finally gotten the book.

1) It took nine months from the conference to availability of the
   proceedings.
2) The book is hardback, and priced US $69.50.

I personally think this is outrageous.  I'd like to know why an
effective (relatively fast and inexpensive) publisher was abandoned.
This does not seem like the right way to disseminate scientific
information in a rapidly moving field.

For those of you who might want to purchase this book, it is published
by Cambridge University Press, and the ISBN is 0-521-38232-7.  I doubt
that I will be buying it, even though I would very much like to have
its contents in my personal library.

joe