Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:07:58 +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: <19980109180758.55257@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801090334.VAA13281@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:34:44PM -0600 References: <grog@lemis.com> <199801090334.VAA13281@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:34:44PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: >>>> Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? >>> >>> I've approached O'Reilly as well about authoring a FreeBSD book as well. >>> Both Tim and Andy Oram said that they pretty much want to stick with Linux >>> since they believe that's where the market is. > > If that's the way they think, I'm terribly disappointed with O'Reilly. > With that attitude, why even bother with Linux, dontchaknow *NT* is > where the market is at? :-) Yup, that's where they're going. I think they've have enough of Linux as well. They seem to be uniniterested in the excellent reputation they have in the UNIX world. >> I got a private reply from Andy saying that they had noticed a >> surprising resilience in the UNIX line (doesn't that say a lot!), and >> he would try yet again. I don't suppose it would do any harm if other >> people would send in a message to the O'Reilly people asking for a >> FreeBSD book. Don't all do it at once! A steady trickle has more >> effect. > > I'm glad Walnut Creek is bothering to publish your book. Maybe in a > couple of years Walnut Creek will avance to the stature an respect ORA > currently has, an leave the NT market to ORA. I think that's wishful thinking. WC would be quite happy to cede the book to O'Reilly as long as they got preferential pricing on the books (which they would continue to sell). > But for FreeBSD's sake if ORA published Greg's book there would > probably be more copies automatically ordered to place on the shelf > the first week than WC would sell in much longer time. Don't count on it. "Porting UNIX Software" sold about 2000 copies on initial release. That's about what "The Complete FreeBSD" sells in 6 weeks. In fact, CFBSD has been a much better seller than PUS, despite the relative strengths of the marketing organizations. I've told that to O'Reilly, but either they don't believe me, or they don't care. Greg
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