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Sec : U Re: Object Graphics Book Reviewers Needed [message #30896] Wed, 22 May 2002 18:05 Go to previous message
Andrew Cool is currently offline  Andrew Cool
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David Fanning wrote:
>
> Andrew Cool (andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au) writes:
>
>> How about "Power Graphics - Programming Object Graphics in IDL"
>> as a title?
>
> It's not my book, of course. But if I ever *did* decide
> to write a book, it wouldn't have the word "object" in
> the title or anywhere else where casual readers were
> likely to stumble across it. I'd be hoping to sell
> a couple of copies, and the word "object" is practically
> death in the publish'n bidness. :-)


So, David, you've had casual readers buy your books to put
on their coffee tables, right alongside "The Bison As An Object
in Landscape Photography"?

Only in America...


Andrew

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