From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 22:40:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28253 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:40:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa2-23.ix.netcom.com [206.214.137.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28243 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04097; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:39:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804110539.WAA04097@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: O'Reilly Books Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just had an exchange with O'Reilly Books about FreeBSD. ================== >Dear Sirs: > >I have eleven O'Reilly books on the shelf in front of me. I have a >pointer to the O'Reilly web page. When I need a book for a project or >other computing interest, I look at O'Reilly. I frequently scan the >O'Reilly books in the book store. > >I would purchase books on FreeBSD from O'Reilly, if they were available. > >Please make FreeBSD books available through your organization. Please >encourage authors to write FreeBSD books for your publication. > >Thank you, >tomdean ================== >That's a nice start. > >I just talked to Nate Patwardhan, our FreeBSD-using sysadmin, and >apparently rumor has it that time may be right for a FreeBSD book. >We'll see what happens; thanks for your letter. > >- -Chris ================== >Thanks for your comments Thomas. We are closely monitoring the >FreeBSD market. Right now, it looks like we would probably lose money >printing a FreeBSD book. When it looks a little more enviting, we >would be happy to publish a book. We feel, now is not the time, but >we will keep watching for it. > >Speaking as a fan of FreeBSD, I think the FreeBSD community could work >out some kind of deal with authors like Nate Padwardhan to create a >good book that could be distributed through the community itself. >Just a little over 10 years ago Tim O'Reilly was selling manuscripts >he had photocopied! Starting a FreeBSD Documentation Project would >not be unreasonable. > >Stephen R. Figgins O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. >O'Reilly Book Support 101 Morris St, Sebastopol, CA 95472 >booktech@oreilly.com O'Reilly home page http://www.oreilly.com ================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message