bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) (04/03/91)
Prentice-Hall announced at the last TOOLS the launching of a new book series, the Prentice-Hall Object-Oriented Series, for which I will serve as series editor. This is a joint venture of Prentice-Hall International (UK) and Prentice-Hall USA, thus ensuring wide international distribution through the P-H worldwide network. The intent is not to include all O-O books published by Prentice-Hall. Instead, we are aiming initially at a rather small number of books, with a strong emphasis on quality and originality. The series will include textbooks as well as surveys, research works, books describing specific languages, reports on new scientific developments and descriptions of industrial applications. Of particular interest are books describing the use of O-O ideas to novel applications and original problems. Among the advantages for authors are: - The prestige of the Prentice-Hall label. - A fast publication process. - In-depth refereeing (at least three referees per book). - A label of quality. - A competitive royalty rate. It is the aim of the Series to become the reference library of top-quality publications for both developers and users of object-oriented methods, languages, tools and ideas. If you are currently working on a book in this area, or have been thinking about doing so, you may wish to consider the Prentice-Hall Object-Oriented Series. The best material to send us is a prospectus: a document of a few pages which talks *about* the projected book, its intended audience, its scope, how it compares to existing work, the planned publication schedule, the author's background etc. This may be complemented by sample material if available. If you have a book project but feel it is too early to write a prospectus, you may still wish to sound us off with whatever partial description of the project is available. Practical details (contracts etc.) will be handled by the following two Prentice-Hall executives: (For authors outside of North America) Helen Martin Prentice-Hall International Wolsey House, Wolsey Road Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP2 4SS United Kingdom Telephone +44 442 231 900 Fax + 44 442 252 544 (E-mail connection will be available in a few weeks) (For authors in North America) Paul Becker Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 USA Telephone +1 201-592-2261 Fax +1 201-461-4573 E-mail pwbecker@cup.portal.com Please send any technical proposal to me: Bertrand Meyer Interactive Software Engineering Inc. 270 Storke Road Suite 7 Goleta, CA 93117 Telephone +1 805-685-1006 Fax +1 805-685-6869 E-mail bertrand@eiffel.uucp with a copy to the appropriate P-H representative above. We are also looking for qualified referees. If you are interested in serving as a referee for the Series, please drop me an electronic note. -- -- Bertrand Meyer Interactive Software Engineering Inc., Santa Barbara bertrand@eiffel.uucp