Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] books about GNU Radio

[John McKendry]

Steve,

 I didn't mean to accuse you or Adi or anyone of intending to violate
copyright, and I apologize for giving that impression. The Wyglinski
et al. and Rondeau/Bostian books have apparently been uploaded as pdfs
to downarchive.com, and that does strike me as a flagrant violation of
copyright, and since I work with GNU Radio, those authors are
colleagues even if they've never heard of me. downarchive.com is
hosted in Viet Nam and may be beyond the realistic reach of copyright
enforcement, but that's just not the right way to get those books.

 As for Cory Clark's book, I would like to read it as much as you
would. When it was pre-announced on this list I went to Amazon and
added it to my wishlist, and I watched it go from "not yet released"
to "currently unavailable" to "out of print" with some disappointment.
I've done of the same searching as you have, and I'm pretty sure
you're not going to find the book anywhere on the Web. Contacting the
author is probably the best way forward.

John

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Steve Mcmahon
<address@hidden> wrote:
> John:
> No one is trying to violate copyright here (at least I am not). I think 
> people are just trying to obtain good resources. I don't understand why 
> McGraw Hill would announce but then never publish Cory Clark's book. I assume 
> the book was completely written, but then they didn't want to publish it at 
> the end. That seems stupid of them to do. It robs the community of a 
> potentially good resource, and it only encourages piracy. They should have at 
> least published it as a PDF e-book or something. It would have sold as well 
> as any other SDR book. Anyway, I am certainly interested in purchasing the 
> book, if I can find it.
>
> Adi:
> Are you saying that you can find Cory Clark's book at 
> http://www.downarchive.com/? Perhaps there is a way to contact Cory Clark 
> himself to obtain/purchase a copy in PDF format? I did a google search for 
> him, and all I can find is the following:
>
> 1. "Cory L. Clark is a senior software engineer with Motorola and has 
> developed many LabVIEW-based DSP tools. He holds a master's degree in 
> electrical engineering from Georgia Tech."
>
> 2. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/cory-clark/5/794/145
>
> 3. 
> http://www.amazon.com/LabVIEW-Digital-Signal-Processing-Communications/dp/0071444920/
>
> I ask people to please post any more information they can find. Perhaps we, 
> as a community, could ask Cory Clark (if we can contact him) if he could 
> provide/sell his manuscript in PDF format, unless McGraw Hill retains the 
> rights to it, and would prohibit him from selling it or distributing it on 
> his own. He could self-publish it on Lulu.com for any price he would like (I 
> have bought several good and very-reasonably-priced technical books in PDF 
> format from there before).
>
> For example:
> http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/signal-processing-techniques-for-software-radios-2nd-edition/11905545?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/3
>
> Steve McMahon
>