[M3devel] Classic Modula-3 Books

[Rodney M. Bates]

I have maybe 2 or 3 copies of SPwM3.  I have occasionally thought about
trying to acquire the copyright from Prentice-Hall, but never got around
to investigating.

There are others:

Harbison: "Modula-3", also Prentice-Hall
Boszormenyi & Weich "Programming in Modula-3", Springer-Verlag
Sedgewick: Algorithms in Modula-3", Addison-Wesley

I am especially interested in the last one.  The second and third
are language tutorials.

Does anyone have any idea whether it is better to first contact the author
or the publisher?  Presumably, the publisher owns all rights, but there
is a royalty contract with the author.

Perhaps we could create a nonprofit foundation or something, to receive
copyrights by whatever means and hold them to keep things like this
available.


Martin Bishop wrote:
> Is there any chance that "classic" books on Modula-3 like "Modula-3" by
> Harbison (I own a copy, it's a great book) or "Systems Programming With
> Modula-3" by Nelson might one day be released online?
> 
> They aren't in print anymore, and I can't imagine there is much demand
> for them...I found "Modula-3" used for $1 on Amazon, but "Systems
> Programming With Modula-3" is $40 at it's cheapest, used :(