Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!chinacat!woody From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Postscript Books Summary: trivial..the WHITE book Message-ID: <1611@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 7 Oct 90 05:07:07 GMT References: <1011@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <289@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Distribution: comp.lang.postscript Organization: a guest of Unicom Systems Development, Austin Lines: 34 In article <289@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: > Yes, it's the same book. Addison-Wesley picked the title(s), and it > changed somewhere along the way. The one that actually got published > is "Thinking in PostScript". Since most books end up on the shelf > > The cover is mostly white, with a blue stripe across the top, and a lot > to call it :-) Sounds fairly trivial. Obviously the WHITE book 8=} since that one is not yet taken. or perhaps the B&W (blue and white). Anyway another book is most welcome. It irratates me that publishers pick titles. Authors should pick titles. Where do publishers get off on the idea that they can call the shots? I'd be pretty hardnosed about it if I were writing a book. I'd design the cover AND the title and reserve that right in the contract...It's bad enough that editors screw things up. Back in Oct of '81 I had an article published in BYTE magazine. I got the Galleys back, read through them, and discovered that some editor had changed the wording of some text. The result was that it was totaly wrong. Only when I threatened to withdraw the article, did they put it back the way it was supposed to. I was not about to have such a thing pulled on me. Cheers Woody > > Glenn > > > > > -- > Glenn Reid RightBrain Software > glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us PostScript/NeXT developers > ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785