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Out of Print...............................Bob Sander-Cederlof

After printing the mini-review of Gene Zumchak's "Microprocessor Design and Troubleshooting" last month, we naturally started receiving orders for the book.  I had some on order from Sams, but Lo!  It is now out-of-print!  I talked with someone inside Sams and they said it will probably remain out-of-print.

I talked with the author directly, and I believe that if necessary he will re-publish the book himself.  It is a worthy book, and needs to be available.  He wants to update some of the material, too.  We'll let you know when we can get it again.

You may have noticed that "computer" books are now the "in" thing to publish.  I would not be surprised if some publishers began having serious difficulties because of their eagerness to grab this market.  They are publishing fluff for the neophytes, forgetting the really useful technical titles.  I hope Sams does not forget how it got where it is today.

Meanwhile, as Art Carlson says, "If you see a book you need you had better get while it is still available."

On this same subject, let's see if we can put some pressure on Apple to make their reference manuals more readily available.  I find that very few (hardly any) Apple dealers will stock or even special order the ProDOS, //e, and //c Reference Manuals.  More than twice I have been told that (for example) the //e manual had never been published, even though I bought a copy at a store many moons ago.  It seems that Apple will only sell the books in bundles of five or more of the same title, and then only to Apple dealers.  Apple dealers seem to not want to order five or more of what are a relatively slow moving item.  After all, they are not book stores.  And consequently, Apple gets the erroneous impression that they really do not need to publish the manuals, because no one is buying them!  If you know anyone in Apple, pass the word to them:  WE DO WANT REFERENCE MANUALS.  Maybe it does make sense not to ship a copy of every manual with every computer, but some means MUST be available for EVERY owner to buy the manuals he needs.
