Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:10187 gnu.misc.discuss:2452 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!apple!usc!wuarchive!udel!haven!umd5!newton.cs.jhu.edu!stiller From: stiller@cs.jhu.edu (Lewis Stiller) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNU Emacs manual sales figures [summary] Summary: perhaps counterintuitively, the off-line manual is a good buy Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 03:08:41 GMT References: Reply-To: stiller@.cs.jhu.edu (Lewis Stiller) Organization: JHU Computer Science Deparment, Baltimore MD Lines: 19 In article Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes: >Bob Chassell, Treasurer of the Free Software Foundation, informs me >that the FSF has shipped about 30,000 GNU Emacs manuals in the past >five years, and recently has been averaging 800 manuals per month! >Also ISBN book numbers are being / have been introduced. >-- >Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708-979-6364 I recommend the GNU emacs manual very highly. It might seem counterintuitive, since it is on-line, but a well-formatted, well-bound and well-designed at-hand manual such as that one turns out to be a big timesaver: in fact my lab mates are frequently consulting it as well. It used to be really cheap too. I have a few quibbles with the design (e.g., multiple indexes), but, again, I recommend this to all emacs users and potential emacs users. Lewis Stiller Department of Computer Science Johns Hopkins University Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com