Date: 10 Mar 2005 00:03:42 -0000
Message-ID: <20050310000342.16023.qmail@plover.com>
From: mjd@plover.com
To: mjd-book@plover.com (Higher-Order Perl announcement list)
Subject: "Higher-Order Perl" has been printed
Organization: Plover Systems

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What's in this message:

* Current status
* This mailing list is not going away
* Signed copies
* Web site improvements

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CURRENT STATUS 
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This morning I held the first copies in my own hands.  

	http://perl.plover.com/hop/photo/20050309/MVC-041F.JPG

The publisher tells me that their warehouse will be stocked in another
few days.  Online booksellers like Amazon and B&N will have it in another
1-3 weeks---sometimes it takes less, and sometimes it takes more.

If you were waiting to order a copy until the book was actually
available, you can order it now.  I get an extra kickback if you order
from


        http://perl.plover.com/hop/ORDER.html
        

MAILING LIST
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I said in my previous message that this would be the last message I
would send to the list.  I realized that was not quite right.  I
will send another announcement later, when the text of the book
becomes available online.  If there are translations into other
languages, or other news, I will post about it here.

If you're interested in hearing about the status of my other books,
please send a note to

        mjd-books-subscribe@plover.com

Either way, thank you for your continued interest.

WEB SITE
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Over the past few weeks I have added a lot of material to the web
site:

* Some brief advance reviews are available at

        http://perl.plover.com/hop/reviews.html

* You can download or search the index at

        http://perl.plover.com/hop/index/

* The example programs from the book are available at

        http://perl.plover.com/hop/Examples/

  although they are still rather disorganized.

* I have an errata page up, although it doesn't yet have any errata on it.

SIGNED COPIES
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A number of people havbe asked how they might obtain signed copies.
One way, of course, is to accost me on the street.  But some people
want to fo it by mail.

The problem with mail is that it is expensive for you because the book
must be shipped twice, and inconvenient for me, since I have to lug
the signed books to the post office.  So I offer this alternative: I
am having cool-looking bookplates printed.  These are illustrated
plates with a sticky backing that you can paste into the front cover
of your book. You can send me a SASE, and I will return a signed
bookplate to you.  See

        http://perl.plover.com/hop/bookplates.html

for complete details.

THANKS
******

Thanks again for your patience and continued interest.  This project
has taken a awfully long time, and it has always been comforting to
know that so many people were interested in the result.