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From: steve@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Steve Cook)
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Subject: Re: ECOOP '89 Proceedings
Keywords: outrageous
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Date: 12 Apr 90 21:37:13 GMT
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In article <1990Apr8.014624.15649@Neon.Stanford.EDU> pallas@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Joe Pallas) writes:
>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.

As the editor of the proceedings, I can tell you.  The British
Computer Society, who sponsored and adminstered the conference,
have an exclusive contract with the Cambridge University Press.
We had no reasonable option other than to use them for the
proceedings.  I am sorry it is so expensive for you and that it
took so long for your store to obtain.  I expect future ECOOP
conferences to revert to Springer.

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