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Re: [AUDITORY] my Human and Machine Hearing book



I still haven't seen the corrected "print-on-demand" version yet.  Amazon prices went up to list price, with long delivery time, so I figure they ran out; but fulfillment was from other sellers, so might still be original printings.  So I ordered a copy from the publisher; will see what I get.  And then today the Amazon price dropped again, with free Prime delivery netting out to less than my 40% author discount at the publisher.  I wish I knew what they're selling -- delivery times are over a month out, so probably the new printing.

I'll post again if I ever get a source on new corrected printings.  I'll still swap a new for an old (when I can) if anyone on this list wants.

I'm off to Africa for a month or so before this will resolve.

The internal Google book reading course has completed, after 13 months of a chapter every other week, and I have recordings from 2 presentations on each chapter (I don't think our lawyers are likely to let me make the recordings public though, as we'd need consent forms from everyone that asked a question, and permissions for all the figures used, and sanitization of mentions of internal projects, etc., from the discussion).  I'm thinking it could be fun to run a public version, starting later this year, but only if I get someone outside to help organize and facilitate; getting attendees to volunteer to be presenters is part of that job – some mild arm twisting is sometimes needed.  Instead of one course with two times (Asia friendly and Europe friendly), I'd say pick one; then maybe someone else can organize and facilitate the other.  I'm not sure I want to be on the hook for two hours a week again (odd weeks were for "office hours" as opposed to presentations, which were great fun, too).

Dick


On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 6:11 PM Richard F. Lyon <dicklyon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
My book hasn't exactly been a best seller, but we've sold most of the first printing.  I'm hoping that I can convince the publisher to make another print run with corrections, if we sell out the last 100 copies or so.  They've already got the 2018 corrections applied, ready to print, but I want to get a few more in.

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Human-Machine-Hearing-Extracting-Meaning/dp/1107007534 has a pretty good discount right now (34% off, but that might change when people buy a few of their 10).

So here's my generous offer:  if a second (corrected) printing ever happens, I'll happily give a free upgrade to a signed copy of the corrected printing for anyone on the auditory list who wants to swap in their first printing.  Maybe this will incentivize a few purchases.  Maybe it will cost me.  Worth it.

I'm currently running an internal "course" on the book, with volunteers presenting chapters, one chapter per two weeks, but with two sessions (Asia-friendly and Europe-friendly times) and two presenters per chapter.  All video-recorded, and hoping to be able to release videos to the public after some negotiation with legal cats.  We're into Part IV now.  It has been a lot of fun all year.

Don't forget there's also a free online version, with 2018 corrections; I'll make a 2022 version with a few more corrections soon.  See http://machinehearing.org for details.

Dick