Update after the AES convention

Details: Written by: Thomas Dunker; Category: News; Published: 21 October 2019; Hits: 6645

I have just returned from New York City and the AES Convention today. Bjørn and I gave a presentation called "Compression Driver DNA - Origin and Seeds of Progress" on Friday which was well received. It summarized some pre-history and history of the W.E. 555 and 594 drivers and presented some previously unseen documents from experimental work on these devices at the Bell Telephone Labs. We did two book signings (Wednesday and Friday afternoons) which attracted quite a few interesting people, many of them very excited about the book - and we sold the first 33 copies of the book at the Convention. We also anticipate two or three published reviews to result from this trip.

Certainly many of you will want to know what happens with the Amazon launch which was scheduled to be on the 15th of October. We are truly sorry to admit we did not quite make it to the 15th, because of Amazon logistics. They would simply not accept the delivery of our pallets of books until a scheduled time on the 28th of October. As the book is "self published" by first time book authors some such unexpected issues turn out to be inevitable.

It therefore looks like the sale on www.amazon.co.uk will not begin until the very end of October.

Meanwhile, we have been approached by a UK based speaker related web shop, Lean Business Audio, that also wants to sell our book. We are about to make arrangements for this, but it's doubtful that the book will be available for sale there much earlier than on amazon. Updates on this will follow once we know more.

Fourth Print Run

The fourth print run has been delivered, and this time we managed to get it done before we ran out of stock, so hopefully nobody noticed. We now should have plenty stock for your Christmas shopping!

The books were actually delivered at the end of June, but due to a malware attack on this site we weren't able to publish it. We sincerely hope nobody were affected by the malware, our web host seems to have taken the site down fairly quickly. After a bit of work we managed to recreate everything, so the site should be safe now; the old install is completely gone.

Third Print Run

The second print run recently sold out, but don't worry! A third print run is under way with delivery to the warehouse 16 May. For customers buying from Lean Business Audio the book should be available shortly after that, for Parts Express customers it will take a little longer as we need to ship stock over.

Second Print Run has been Delivered

We have received the new batch of books from the printer, they are now currently in our warehouse, ready to be sent out to our distributors. Lean Business Audio is local and should be able to get books on short notice, so if they haven't updated their website, send them a message and let them know you want to buy a book. It will take a little longer to get stock to Parts Express as we need to ship overseas, but things are moving.

Latest Update on Second Print Run

The corrected manuscript has been submitted to the printer, and we have received a proof of some of the pages to make sure the images print well. As some of you may have noticed, some of the pictures in the first printing were very dark, and this should hopefully now have been corrected.

The printer informed us that due to Brexit and Covid, some print companies have been forced to downsize or close, so there's currently a shortage of print capacity in the UK. CPI Print, which we use, also have an unprecedented volume of work. The lead time for the book is therefore longer than anticipated. It looks like production will not start up until mid or late January, with additional lead times in order to get the books out to Lean and Parts Express. We are sorry we weren't able to get the books ready for Christmas, but at least it's moving forward!

We will keep you updated.

Stock Status and Second Print Run

The book is now nearly sold out. The last few copies are on their way to Parts Express now and should be available on their website soon.

Thanks to everyone who bought a copy!

The stock ran out quicker than expected, but don't worry: we plan to do a new print run soon. We wanted to correct some typos first, but these will just be minor corrections of mistakes. The content will be the same as the firt printing, and all important (factual and mathematical) corrections will be listed in the Errata section on this website.

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