Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:40:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Book Request Message-ID: <19980111114021.55554@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801102351.RAA23258@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 05:51:27PM -0600 References: <grog@lemis.com> <199801102351.RAA23258@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 05:51:27PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: >> Don't tell them that. If they think that everybody who would be >> interested in CFBSD had already bought the 4.4BSD books, that would >> definitely turn them off. > > The logic escapes me that ORA will stay out of *BSD books and discount > my request simply because I already own a lot of ORA books. I'm a > sucker, I'll buy more *BSD books, The 4.4BSD books aren't selling well. If everybody interested in CFBSD professes to have the 4.4BSD manual set, ORA will conclude that the market is the same, and that they won't sell enough. > Suggested title for a new FreeBSD book: "FreeBSD Is Not Linux", this > way you get the (seemingly) mandatory Linux word in the title, and you > get published. ;-) We had something like that in the first edition (on the cover: "The Berkeley alternative to Linux"). I got a lot of negative feedback on that one. Greg
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