Dear Otto,

Nobody reads IFIP books anyway ;-)

We should focus on affordable electronic publication means, and look at paper publication as a side-effect.

Best regards, Guy

A (At) 16:48 5/11/02, Otto Spaniol ecrivait (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).

Best regards Otto

p.s.: The new IFIP president was extremely impressed by our 30 year celebration event in Lisbon.

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