Distance learning must be popular this season, I noticed that Amazon only has 3 copies left in stock of "Get Your IT Degree and Get Ahead". Congratulations to John & Tom (and Mariah if she reads this), don't spend those royalty checks all in one place! Bruce
<shamless self-promotion> Hmmm, I note that Amazon only has *1* copy of "Bears' Guide to the Best Computer Degrees by Distance Learning" left ;-) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580082211/qid=1009610830/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_7_1/104-9130732-7035929 </shameless self-promotion> Larry co-author, "Bears' Guide to the Best Computer Degrees by Distance Learning" (I must admit that I was surprised, myself! A royalty check in this lifetime would be a welcome sight indeed)
Bruce: Distance learning must be popular this season, I noticed that Amazon only has 3 copies left in stock of "Get Your IT Degree and Get Ahead". Yeah. Out of the 4 they bought, I suspect. Congratulations to John & Tom (and Mariah if she reads this), don't spend those royalty checks all in one place! Based on the last royalty statement from McGraw-Hill, accompanied by $0.00, it will be 4 or 5 years before we earn enough to equal the advance they gave us. John Bear, who still gets letters from people saying, in effect, "Hey, you've sold 400,000 Bears' Guides at $30 each. How about using some of that twelve million to pay for my tuition at..." Doesn't quite work that way, alas. But I do get 75 cents for each 14th ed. sold.
Well, that means that I got the 4th. And it's a good 'un. Recommended to anyone interested in IT/CS degrees (but not specifically distance ed.).
Dr. Bear, Don't spend the $3 I gave you in one place. ------------------ Darren Cross BSB-Management, UoP MBA-Fontbonne College
To avoid confusion, we should point out that "Get Your IT Degree and Get Ahead" and "Best Computer Degrees by Distance Learning" are two very different books. I have both. The former is much bigger and more complete -- but covers primarily residential programs (with information about distance ed options where appropriate). Good for getting a picture of what IT/CS university-level education is all about today. The latter is entirely focused on distance ed -- and describes 100 selected programs. Good if you want to quickly pick a good distance IT/CS program. Re Larry's remark about royalties: In 1989, I wrote a single chapter for a book published by Marcel Dekker. Each year, Marcel Dekker would dutifully send me a letter saying that my cumulative royalties were below their threshold for sending me a check. Then in 2001, mirabile dictu, I finally got a check for $53.42, representing my total royalties from over a decade of sales. Talk about a successful author...
Gert, I once had the experience of being part of a team which had a text published by the University of Chicago Press. I also discovered that the rewards were intrinsic; I think I earned fifty dollars total. I eventually discovered how you know when your book is out of date. One day while cruising a used bookstore on the University of Illinois campus I discovered a dozen or so copies of our book … unopened in the cellophane wrapper. Everything has its time. David
