[Radiance-general] "Rendering with Radiance" (non-)availability

[Rob Guglielmetti]

Hi Lars,

This has been a problem for a while, as you know. A grand for a used copy on Amazon now, eh? WOW. Last time I checked, people were asking ~$300 for a copy, but that was years ago. I feel old, because I bought my copy of RwR by plucking a freshly-published copy off the shelf at my local bookstore a few blocks from work, but this was in nineteen ninety-(cough)! =8-)

Seriously, the issue in the past is that Greg and Charles Ehrlich's supreme efforts were thwarted by what seemed to be a lousy print-on-demand publisher they secured a few years ago. I know they were going to look into other publishers and I think that hard copy was the way they wanted to work it. I do not know if they are close to finding a new publisher. 

On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:24 AM, Lars O. Grobe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just wanted to draw your attention to the fact that the main reference for Radiance is not available. The cheapest price for "Rendering with Radiance" at amazon.com as of today is 1000$ for a used copy. Booksurge gives 0 results on a search. I wonder whether making the book available as a paid pdf would not be better then not having it at all. This is a big problem for application of the software, as anyone using it gets pointed to this book as a reference, but no one could buy it. I have been trying to buy a copy for an institute here for one year without any success. Besides preventing potential users from starting with Radiance, this increases the amount of beginners questions, that had been answered in the book.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Lars.
> 
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