[SCC_Active_Members] the Quirks in Reviving CS books

[Guy Steele]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Lee Courtney wrote:

> Ed et al,
>
>
>> p.s. another issue: what about setting up a CHM Press,
>> similar to what the AAAI did. Then people can donate the
>> copyrights to "classics" to the CHM and the CHM can choose to
>> republish (sooner or later). I am guessing that MIT Press or
>> Stanford Press would be willing to enter into a publishing
>> partnership as MIT Press did with the AAAI.
>>
>> We would need an editor of the CHM imprint.  A volunteer
>> could easily do the job.
>>
>
> This could be as little as an "electronic" reprint. For example,  
> Christian
> Langreiter has obtained reprint permission for Knuth's

Iverson's?

--Guy Steele

>                                                                        
>                  A Programming
> Language. Christian and I have a couple of cosmetically clean  
> editions for
> scanning.
>
> Facilitating publishing of classics, either bits or atoms, would be  
> great
> and CHM could provide a home for these works much as the SCC is  
> trying to do
> with software.
>
> Talking with Allison the Museum already has a defined process for  
> accepting
> ownership of IP. Next step would be to wrap a "CHM Press" program  
> around
> "Computing Classic's Series". Doing this in conjunction with the  
> ACM would
> be great.
>
> Lee Courtney