Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:08:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Book Request Message-ID: <19980109180848.44889@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199801090413.WAA13868@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 10:13:54PM -0600 References: <grog@lemis.com> <199801090413.WAA13868@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 10:13:54PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: >>> Has anyone at O'Reilly said why they don't want to do any FreeBSD books? >> >> Andy's been the only one who had much to say on the subject. I think >> they grossly miscalculated the sales of the 4.4BSD manual set, and as >> a result were wary of anything called BSD. > > I did my part, bought the whole set of 4.4BSD books. I have about 6' of > ORA books. Don't tell them that. If they think that everybody who would be interested in CFBSD had already bought the 4.4BSD books, that would definitely turn them off. Greg
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