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Commodore: A Company on the Edge - near release
« on: November 14, 2010, 06:03:17 AM »
It's been a long time in coming, but Brian Bagnall, author of the book, "On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore", has confirmed that his new book, "Commodore: A Company on the Edge", is at the printer right now and will be shipped soon.  In fact, at Amazon.com there is page that says that Variant Press will release the book on December 15.  Just in time for Christmas!

To see the initial announcement, go to

http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0973864966/ref=sr_ob_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289706472&sr=8-1

Think of the new book as a second edition of On the Edge.  Here is what Brian had to say, "It was a long road and a lot of work to get the second edition into shape. There was so much new information from the 15 additional interviews and tons of pictures that I had to split the book into two parts. A Company on the Edge deals with the period up until Tramiel leaves and the second part (slated for 2012) will tell the post-Tramiel years with the Amiga. Each book deals with about a 10 year period, and a lot of players change in 1984 so it worked out to be a pretty good split."

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Re: Commodore: A Company on the Edge - near release
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2010, 03:52:00 AM »
Quote from: Matt_H;591755
According to Robert's post, it looks like it's back on track for release... unless that's very old info.
The information came directly from Brian Bagnall in an e-mail message to me yesterday and has also been confirmed by Ian Matthews of http://www.commodore.ca   Brian gave me permission to spread the news.  If you have further questions, I can get you in contact with Brian.

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Re: Commodore: A Company on the Edge - near release
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2010, 05:14:22 PM »
O.K., I can forward your message to him.

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Re: Commodore: A Company on the Edge - near release
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2010, 04:00:00 AM »
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The First edition it was primised there would be a slew of "additional chapters" for download after it was published. I think he did release one or two.
I never heard of a "slew" of chapters being promised, but Chapter 1.5 was released and was available on the website for quite awhile (1.5 no longer there now).
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This edition adds acording to what I read, interviews with one of the Tramiel's...
Not just one of the Tramiels but Jack Tramiel!

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