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From: jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Books Due Out
Message-ID: <904@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 19:03:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  2 19:03:20 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 04:17:24 EDT
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Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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Keywords: books
Summary: Not many P-H books

In article <1469@amdcad.UUCP> jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) writes:
>
> got this from Compuserve:
>Here is a list of some of the new books for the Macintosh that were
>anounced at the recent American Bookseller's Association convention.

	...

>Prentice-Hall
>-------------
>Macintosh Graphics in Modula-2
>by Russell L. Schnapp     $19.95     August
>
>The Soul of Macintosh
>by The Waite Group        $19.95     November
>

P-H once had plans for many more books.  When they were bought by the
conglomerate Gulf & Western (which recently later merged P-H with
their another subsidiary, Simon & Schuster) they got real chicken.
They cancelled a 5-book Mac series (due out in June) from a local company,
Microtrend books of San Diego, as well as 2 other Microtrend
PC books.  Needless to say, there is one pissed-off owner, several
pissed-off, laid-off ex-employees, at least two pissed-off literary
agents, and a half-dozen really mad would-be authors.

I'm told P-H did this with other computer books as well.  Needless
to say, there has been a shakeout recently in the computer book
publishing field, but I've heard things will be improving slightly
(though not so much as to equal last year's high).

-- 
	Joel West	CACI, Inc. -- Federal
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