[Tugindia] Wide circulation of TUG Proceedings
H.S.Rai
tugindia@tug.org
Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:39:56 +0530 (IST)
Today at 9:19pm +0530 Radhakrishnan CV wrote:
> No, it is the property of TUG now and one of the coming issues of
> TUGBoat will be the TUG2002 proceedings.
TUGBoat appears to me as only for private circulation to members. IMO
at least proceedings deserve to be published and sold. TUG can explore
this avenue and it may be a source of income also.
> HSR> who can sell good number of copies to target persons and
> HSR> Libraries, or if TUG can donate copies of proceeding to
> HSR> selected Libraries?
>
> Are you serious to believe that people are interested in the
> proceedings? I doubt they're, Rai.
Not Tom & Jerry. But there must a sizable segment. And, going
through preprint, It made me think so. IMO, computer science
department, mathematics department, language department need these
proceedings. The only point is how TUG sell it to them. Unless TUG
publish it and made available to public, how public come to know about
it, and from where they buy. If it is there in library shelf, I am
sure it will attract readers.
Moreover most of papers in preprint appears to me pointing a scope for
research, where student can do work as a major project, thesis at
masters level or even at doctoral level. On LIH, most of student
request for some suitable project. If such students have access to TUG
proceeding, they may take up TeX related projects.
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H.S.Rai