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Re: Phrase
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Mon, 25 Jun 2001 05:14:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> I've gotta ask the obvious question (or not so obvious?): Is
> he writing it in English or in Hebrew? Or both?
English.
> As an editor
> myself I'm interested in how he's positioned himself and how
> the publishing process works outside the US and Europe.
He hooked up with a publishing company from Europe, actually, it might even
be the Netherlands, but I forget. The publishing company is getting the book
out at *their* expense, and he's getting a percentage of the profit (well...
assuming there is any!).
> Is
> this a commissioned work that already has an agreement to
> publish (which I'd assume, giving your dad's credentials), or
> is it something he's going to shop around after it's all done?
Actually, no, not a comissioned work. It's about his life methodology which
he *has* been developing while working at the Technion (and MIT for that
matter), *but* the book is independent of both. And he's hoping to sell it
around after it's done, yeah. It's not the money he's after though (1), he's
only getting a small percentage of the profits as I mentioned above. He
wants his ideas to spread out, he has high hopes for it. I hope it all works
out, though I have my doubts, but he has some great ideas in there. He has
trouble focusing though (that's where I come in... having written my junior
thesis this year, I daresay I'm a better writer than he is! (2)). His book
is challanging some Object Oriented concepts, on which UML is built on. IMHO
his ideas are a lot better than what I've seen from UML. ;-) Oh well...
Then again, his startup is based on these idea, so if the book takes off
*really* well, he could end up pretty durn rich, since he's the only one who
has the technology to work with these ideas. Then *again*, I gave up on his
startup before it even started up. ;-) We'll see though. I wouldn't mind if
the startup did succeed, coz I've got stocks in there, and you know what
that means! (LEGO! Lots of it!) But *honestly*? I'd much rather see his
*idea* succeed than his startup. But then once again, they're closely related...
> Oh man, am *I* ever old. =:S Happy birthday!
Aww, naww... and thanks! :-)
-Shiri
(1) Of course that's always a perk though. ;-)
(2) I was a finalist for the Kennedy Prize, a pretty prestigious award at my
school for the best Junior Thesis (one for each curriculum).
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