Otto,
I agree with Guy - it doesn't matter what happens to any of the various print publishers, because the printed books are irrelevant. IFIP and TC6 must move very quickly in the direction of on-line publication; if they do not, they will also become irrelevant.
- Lyman
At 4:48 PM +0100 11/5/02, Otto Spaniol wrote:
Dear all,
a major topic for all our meetings has been (and will probably remain to be for a long time) the publication strategy of IFIP and of IFIP-TC6: Kluwer or Springer or IEEE or ....
Yesterday I got the following information: a. Springer will probably be sold to a competitor, maybe to Elsevier (and Elsevier was even more expensive as former IFIP publisher than Kluwer has ever been). b. Kluwer will probably also been sold
- either to a competitor in the same segment who would then close down the rival
- or to another company whose intentions were not really known.
For the moment being it seems that IFIP is in a severe trouble with the new publication contract. And to my opinion TC6 should also not be too much restricted to Springer as its only publisher since .... (see above).