[Freegis-list] Re: Book announcement: "Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach"

[Markus Neteler]

Dear GRASS Community,
dear FreeGIS enthusiasts,

a short folluw-up concerning the book announcement below as we got several
individual book requests:

While we search for further book resellers, institutions, universities,
until April, 24, to make the book affordable for everybody (we have to reach
at least 100 books to enable the publisher to significantly lower the
price), now also individual book orders can be processed at reduced price.

Individual book orders please send to,

in  Germany:   Intevation GmbH
               Silke Reimer <silke at intevation.de>

International: OpenOSX
               http://OpenOSX.com/grassbook/

Please contact these resellers directly if you want to order at a reduced
book price.

Further resellers, institutions, universities interested in 20+ books for
50$ per book (plus shipping) may contact me or Helena Mitasova personally.

This offer may expire April, 24th. Later the book will become available as
usual (bookstores, online bookshops etc and above resellers).

Note that the publisher's offer to allow the authors for organizing
pre-sales to lower the final list price is quite unusual.
This email should be the last notification.

Kind regards

 Markus Neteler

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:11:37AM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Dear GRASS Community,
> dear FreeGIS enthusiasts,
> 
> a long term problem - a missing comprehensive book on how to use GRASS
> is overcome. A new book is just leaving the presses:
> 
>     Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach
> 
>     Markus Neteler, Helena Mitasova 
>     1. ed. 2002, 460 pages
>     Kluwer Academic Press, Boston, Dordrecht
> 
> This hard cover book provides basic information about the use of GRASS from
> setting up the spatial database, through working with raster, vector and
> site data, to visualization, image processing and hands-on applications.
> 
> The book also contains a brief introduction to programming within GRASS and
> examples of the GRASS usage with other Open Source software tools, such as
> "gstat", "R statistical language", and linking GRASS to "MapServer". The
> appendix includes overview of all current commands, list of supported
> projections and formats as well as equations used in some modules. To get
> some feel for the book, the table of contents and samples are temporarily
> available here:
> 
> http://mpa.itc.it/grassbook/
> 
> We consider publishing a book about GRASS by a major publisher an important
> step for GRASS being recognized as a serious, reliable software worth
> teaching at academic institutions and for official use in research.
> We also think that it is important for GRASS that Kluwer goes to many
> conferences where a large number of people may have the opportunity to learn
> about GRASS5. Through the publisher, the word about GRASS 5 will get out to
> universities, professional organizations, scientific and trade journals and
> other places which are hard to reach for us.
> 
> Because Kluwer publishes books for narrow audiences (as ours still is), the
> cost per book is relatively high. However, the book can be purchased at a
> very reasonable price through bulk presales.
> For example a pre-sale of 100 books can be done at $50 or pre-sale of 50
> books can be done at $60. Presales also lower the final list price which is
> over $100 depending on the presales (if you think that is too much, please
> read Tim O'Reilly's web site about publishing books, they need to sell many
> more books than we can to have around $50-60 list price).
> 
> The book is currently in press and should be available within a month or two
> - exactly the right time with the GRASS5.0 release.
> 
> Currently we are collecting companies, organizations, institutions to
> arrange pre-sales at $50 net price per book. The deadline for orders at that
> price is Thursday next week. Please let us know whether you would be
> interested in presales and help us to make the book more affordable for
> everybody.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu>
> Markus Neteler  <neteler at itc.it>

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