Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:06:13 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Jim Mock <jim@lust.geekhouse.net> Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Message-ID: <20001005150613.A79428@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20001005115947.A43895@envy.geekhouse.net>; from jim@lust.geekhouse.net on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:59:48AM -0700 References: <20001005095708.C3264@envy.geekhouse.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010040924310.52998-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20001005115947.A43895@envy.geekhouse.net>
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:59:48AM -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > I just talked to Greg Croy from IDG -- he was the editor handling > FreeBSD for Dummies. He said that IDG doesn't have any interest in > publishing FreeBSD for Dummies anymore because they don't have enough > confidence the market is large enough to ensure it's success. In other > words, their risk is too great :-( I've had this same experience dealing with publishers about my FreeBSD book. The most interested party wound up turning me down in favor of another FreeBSD beginner's book. The beginners' market is quickly filling up with contracted books. There's a slew of publishers who are willing to publish *advanced* BSD books, if you can write both device drivers and documentation. Personally, I've given up on pushing a BSD book until I can saturate the market with articles and become too large a force to resist. And there's a *long* way to go until then. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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