[ruby-talk:00954] Re: Curios About "ruby"?

In message "[ruby-talk:00934] Re: Curios About "ruby"?"
    on Thu, 25 Nov 1999, [e-mail] (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "[ruby-talk:00932] Curios About "ruby"?"
>     on 99/11/25, Clemens Hintze <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> |>   What English books are there available in "ruby"?  If none, does
> |> anybody knows any upcoming English books about "ruby"?
> |
> |Unfortunately none. And AFAIK, matz has not planned to translate his
> |book yet! :-(
>
> Two reasons:
>
>   * I'm not good at English enough to write/traslate book with 600 pages.
>   * No publisher have offered me to publish book in English.
>
>                                                         matz.

Hi,

Your English is good enough that others could turn a rough translation of
your book into a professionally polished English version of your book. I am
sure that there are a number of qualified people who would be willing to
help out with this.

There are some new "print on demand" English language book publishers (for
example www.1stbooks.com and www.iuniverse.com). When they receive a order
for a book from Amazon.com or a conventional book store or directly from a
customer, they print a paperback copy, bind it with a color cover, and mail
it out. Hence you do not need to wait for a publisher to offer to print your
book in English.

TMTOWTDI

Conrad