In the last day or two, Amazon.com has changed the status on the
paperback edition of /*Life Itself*/ once again. It now reads:
This item has not yet been released. You may order it now and we
will ship it to you when it arrives from Amazon.com.
Looks like CUP is yet further delayed in getting the book out on time.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
*From:* ROSEN Forum [mailto:*** Behalf Of
*Tim Gwinn
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:51 PM
*To:* ***
*Subject:* Re: Paperback edition of Life, Itself
I have had two copies of the paperback edition of /*Life Itself*/ on
order with Amazon.com. I noticed that in March, Amazon's inventory
status said something like "Usually ships in 8 to 9 days" for this
item. Today the status reads "Usually ships within 1 to 3 weeks".
Barnes&Noble and Powell's both still report it as out-of-stock. I am
afraid that this might mean that CUP is further delayed in getting
it out the door. Unfortunately I'm not surprised, as my own past
dealings with CUP have shown them to be an abysmal company to deal
with as a customer. :(
Tim
-----Original Message-----
*From:* ROSEN Forum [mailto:*** Behalf
Of *Judith Rosen
*Sent:* Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:27 PM
*To:* ***
*Subject:* Re: Paperback edition of Life, Itself
*Hi Martin,*
**
*This is really weird... I have no idea how they could turn 285
pages into 404... unless they make the print really huge and
spread it out more. They better NOT have added "stuff" to it
without my permission-- I warned them specifically not to. They
wanted to get the opinions of other scientists and include them
as counterpoint. No way! *
**
*I'm frustrated with the behavior of Columbia University Press
and have been for quite a while, now. In fact, I even requested
that they drop my father from their publication list, but they
refused to do that. They have done things without informing me,
they have told me things which later turned out to not be true,
etc.... They are unimaginably slow to get these works out in the
marketplace, and have multiple, unexplained delays.*
**
*In short... they suck. Sorry it's impacting you.*
**
*However, "Life, Itself" is relatively easy to find in libraries
because it's still in print and that's also the reason it
doesn't go missing the way "Anticipatory Systems" does.*
**
*I will attempt to get an update from the publisher and if they
have any useful information, I'll post it here. *
**
*Cheers,*
*Judith*
/BioTheory: An E-Journal of General Science in the Rosennean
Complexity Paradigm
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----- Original Message -----
*From:* Martin K Jones <mailto:***>
*To:* ***
<mailto:***>
*Sent:* Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:49 AM
*Subject:* [ROSEN] Paperback edition of Life, Itself
Hi, I'm new to the list. I've just started reading about
Robert Rosen
and his work.
I was surprised to see that Amazon has a paperback edition
of "Life,
Itself" listed as being available Feb 28, 2005. I had
ordered a copy
from Barnes and Noble a few days earlier, but got a message
this morning
saying that it has been delayed.
Here's Columbia University Press's entry about it:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023107/0231075642.HTM
Also, the paperback has 404 pages, versus the hardback's
285. Is there
any additional content?
Thanks,
Martin
--
Martin K Jones
University of Alabama at Birmingham