From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 5 21:30:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533F737B502; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:30:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA53998; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:20:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Terry Lambert Cc: jim@lust.geekhouse.net, Rick Hamell , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) In-Reply-To: <200010052146.OAA15494@usr05.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org They really cancelled the contract--I asked them to reconsider, and they spent a month reconsidering. The book is now 3/4 done. Well, maybe that's a little bit of an overstatement. But close to that. Within a month of being finished. I was quite disappointed, not only because I've done quite a lot of work on it but also because I think it's needed. I was surprised at how much stuff is unexplained. I agree with Terry's estimate on how long it takes to write an "advanced" book. Even writing something you know cold takes time, because every word has to be written--and formatted. I am, though, interested in another publisher, and am just beginning to look around. A few people apparently pre-ordered the book on the Dummies web site; I guess not enough! How I would love to have Terry Lambert's autograph on a book I wrote about FreeBSD! Annelise On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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 :-( > > Email address where we can promise to buy N copies, where N >= 1, > please. I'd buy one just to have Annelise sign my copy at the > "FreeBSD for Dummies" book-signing party that will surely occur > at the BAFUG/BABUG meeting following its publication. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message