[I'm still unsubscribed.]
The University Bookstore at U. Washington is sad! It has fewer computer
books than the downtown Barnes & Noble now. Most of the books are "dumb"
titles. I remember when a university bookstore used to mean you'd see a lot
of esoteric research books and so forth. Not anymore. 0 Lisp books in
evidence; you may recall that B&N at least had 1. Someone else commented
that stores have been reducing their floorspace for technical books, and the
University Bookstore has certainly gone this route. I suppose anyone who
wants anything esoterically technical will have to buy it online. I don't
even know if the Seattle Metro Area has a good technical bookstore anymore.
On the positive side, B&N has tons of books on game development now. That's
a viable marketing vector. Hopefully someday I'll make a game using a
compiled HLL and an open source 3D engine, make money on it, write a book
about what I did, and make money on that. 3D graphics in general is also a
reasonably well represented book category. A HLL book on that sort of thing
could maybe do well.
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Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA
When no one else sells courage, supply and demand take hold.
"Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com> writes:
> 0 Lisp books in evidence
I saw one copy of Graham's /ANSI Common Lisp/ there in
September. Apparently someone came to his senses and grabbed it.
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Steven E. Harris
If you search c.l.l for "Quantum Books", you'll find a post I made to a
similar thread on 6/24/2004. The gist was that bookstores near MIT
that had several Lispy books in 1994 have few today.
In August I took my high-school daughter on a tour of colleges and saw
the same thing most places. I came to the conclusion it's not an issue
with Lisp, but simply because of the rise of online shopping. College
bookstores have less incentive to stock off-beat books, because they
know customers are more likely to search for off-beat books online
before they search the stores. If I see an off-beat book at a store,
I'll buy it to support the store. But I'm less likely to make a long
trip to the store if I find the book online.