Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:58:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Bzdik BSD <bzdik@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Books on FreeBSD and local libraries Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10109111041540.70121-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010910040911.33587.qmail@web13607.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Bzdik BSD wrote: > Hi All, > > would it help if we all start bugging local libraries to get a book or > two on FreeBSD? I just requested to do so a local community college > and > a public library to get Ms Anderson's book. (as well as the one by Mt > Mittelspiel). "FreeBSD Unleashed" is coming too. What do you think? > > The authorship is not a profitable pastime at all, I'd be schilling > differently :)) > > Best, B > > P.S. Btw, Anderson's book is a chef's d'oeuvre - not an easy task to > make an easy read on a subject like that. Excellent product. > > Thank you! Libraries are nice and because the budgets of public libraries are determined by the local politicians, librarians are responsive to the public. (That's why there's so much paperback romantic fiction aimed at women on the shelves.) But this is a highly specific market; the mailing lists and USENET are one way to reach it (and IRC), if "appropriately" done. Lehey does something weekly on -questions. Also there are all those parents out there worried about their kids who spend hours playing computer games and wondering how they can redirect this fascination to something that has more potential for learning. There are computer magazines, hard copy and on-line. I haven't checked slash/dot recently but the initial poster who picked up the announcement about my book asked if anyone wanted to review it. I expressed a willingness on -advocacy to provide review copies (and haven't followed up on all the resulting mail), but most of the responses were from people interested in advising me about how to communicate with new users (that's already baked in the cake, pretty much, except for line-by-line correction of errors); what I wanted was on-line book reviews, of which so far there's only DaemonNews (thanks Linh!). There's always Amazon, too, where no on-line review has yet appeared. A few people have taken the trouble to review Ted Mittelstaedt's wonderful book there. Home schoolers....they number over a million, and parents are heavily involved and in touch with other home-schooling parents and there are many "group" activities. (I spoke to a group of several hundred Bay Area home schoolers about the year's topic for their debate clubs a few years ago.) Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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