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Author Marketing Questionnaire

Information required for copyright registration:

a.Name in full: Jan Dennis Newmarch

b.Date and place of birth: 9 Dec 19949, Reading, UK

c.Nationality: Australian

Biographical Information

d.What is your current occupation and title? Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra, Canberra Australia. From this December, I will be Associate Professor in Network Computing at Monash University, Melbourne Australia. Due to the different naming systems for academic staff in Australia versus the US, it may be best to use US terminology and call me a "professor"

e.Please list previous positions (relevant to your book) with occupation, title, organization, and dates. Non relevant, I have been in my current position for 16 years

f.Education and professional training (schools, degrees earned, and dates) Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mathematics, University of Bristol, England, 1971, and PhD in Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia, 1981

g.Please list prizes, honors, or awards you’ve received

h.Please list other books you have written including titles, dates, and publisher
"Logic Programming: Prolog and Stream Parallel Languages" Prentice-Hall, 1990 and "The X Window System and Motif. A Fast Track Approach" Addison-Wesley, 1992

Marketing Information

1.Please give a brief (1-2 paragraph) description of your book.
Jini is the name for a distributed computing environment, that can offer ``network plug and work''. A device or a software service can be connected to a network and announce its presence. Clients that wish to use such a service can then locate it and call it to perform tasks. This can be used for mobile computing tasks where a service is only connected to a network for a short time, but more generally can be used in any network where there is some degree of change.
This book is designed for network programmers and architects who want to learn about Jini, how to write programs using Jini, and how to link hardware devices and software systems with Jini.

2.What is your book’s intended audience?  Professional programmers and architects working in distributed systems with Java

3.Please list any professional associations or societies that you belong to or whose members might be interested in your book. ACM, IEEE Computer Society, AUUG (Australian Unix User Group, auug.org.au)

4.Please list in order of importance any publications (print and Internet publications) likely to be read by potential buyers of your book. 
Java Report, Java Developers Journal, IEEE Computer, IEEE Internet Computing, Jini mailing list, Jini FAQ

5.Which influential individuals in you field (especially those you know) should receive information about and/or a copy of your book?
The Jni development team, e.g. Bob Scheifler (Bob.Scheifler@east.sun.com)

6.Please list any organizations, companies, or institutions that might be interested in purchasing quantities of your book for training, promotional premiums, incentives, or similar purposes.
Potentially any University that teaches courses in advanced network programming

7.Do you have contacts in the media who might be interested in receiving information about you and your book? No

8.What conferences, trade shows, or events are potential buyers of you book likely to attend? JavaOne and any other Java Conference (I think Borland also run one)

9.With your author questionnaire you will find a copy of a sample tip sheet, a form used by our sales reps to sell your book.. Tip sheets provide a basic overview of your book’s content and information on potentially competitive titles. Using the sample as a guide, please write a draft of a tip sheet for your book and return it with your author questionnaire.  

10.Below, please provide any other information that you feel would be helpful in marketing your book.
The book is based on an open-source publication that has been available on the Internet for over a year. This public availability has meant that it has been peer-reveiwed by many readers e.g. in just the last week, over 600 people have accessed the online version (I can get full figures over the year if you want). There are many links to the book, so I can easily put an ad up for the hard copy.
I am also the leader of the Australian Jini Technology Center (www.jini.canberra.edu.au)