2 Sep
1998
2 Sep
'98
7:27 a.m.
At 12:04 PM 9/2/98 PDT, Max Eskin wrote:
if an author is proud of his book, he won't trash the manuscripts.
Such grave pronouncements. You might as well argue that they
shouldn't throw away their drafts. Fact is, they do. Once the
book is in print, they've got a real copy. What compelling
reason did he have to save the old floppy version? It's not
as if he thought there was any demand for a second edition.
Computer books come and go in six weeks these days.
- John