Again, I sense a problem with reading compression. As I have in my signature line- I am *NOT* an employee of WROX or Wiley publishing. I am only reporting information I was told in a telephone conversation with employees of Wrox.

I am very familiar with the process Wiley went through- there was no time given to evaluate and discuss and research. The rules for liquidation in the UK are pretty straight forward. They accept bids for a VERY short period of time. I emailed them myself about bidding on some of the Wrox properties- about 1 week after the liquidation was announced and I was told I had 3 days to get any bid in I wanted. When I asked for supporting information I was told there wasn't much they could provide as there were no WROX employees left on payroll.

The ETHICS of the people at Wiley is all that exists to provide us with support on books that they did not buy (Something they are doing) as well as trying to honor the support agreements in the books. I'd like to point out that Wiley continues to provide source code downloads on books they DID NOT BUY and are UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO. If there is no way to *GET* the solutions to those exercises and the authors are unable to provide them, what would you suggest Wiley do?

Remember, your not a customer of Wiley- You're a customer of a company that no longer exists. Wiley is trying to do the right thing by the customers of that old company- however, they are not obligated to do so. It's important to understand anything they do for the old customers is out of a sense of duty to the community- not a legal requirement.

Being that it IS a sense of duty- rather than a legal requirement- I think they deserve a little slack in trying to get the information they can.

Now, *IF* they continue to print and ship the book, knowing the exercise answers are not available- then I have a *HUGE* problem with that. I am assuming that Wiley is not printing nor shipping any books that they do not have all of the materials for. However, they will need to comment on that themselves. Keep in mind any stock already shipped by the old wrox is not under the control of Wiley- and they can not force booksellers to return or destroy them.





Hal Levy
NOT a Wiley/Wrox Employee- Got a job for me?