I've worked with a number of publishers over the years and it's not unusual for the process to be mired in typical corporate tech thought. Publishing is not a tech business: You can usually expect things tied to Microsoft products.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Jan-Paul Bultmann < janpaulbultm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Just my 50 cent. > > I was asked to do a technical review on a Clojure podcasts by packtpub > once. > > The "storyboard" they send me consisted of a word file containing a huge > table with text and source code. > > Why would anybody send a technical reviewer source code in a word > document, yet alone in a table column that has a width of 50 characters > which causes it to line-wrap everywhere?! > > It feels to me that this publisher is just a book mill that goes for > quantity and not quality. > I couldn't make it thought a single book I bought from them because > reading them felt like a waste of time. > > Of course things might have changed by now and your mileage may vary. > I'm just thinking that if somebody takes the time of writing a book on > Clojure, > it should at least be worthwhile. > > All the best, Jan > > On 20 Dec 2014, at 09:07, Tushar Gupta <tos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am Tushar Gupta, an Acquisition Editor at Packt Publishing. > We specialise in publishing books, eBooks, video tutorials and articles for > IT developers, administrators and users. > > We are currently planning to develop a book on *Clojure Data structures > and Algorithms*. > > We are looking for an expert to author this book and share their knowledge > and skills with our readers. > > For more information you can mail me on tush...@packtpub.com. > > Looking forward to have some legit responses. :) > -- > Regards, > > > * Tushar Gupta * > > > * Acquisition Editor Packt Publishing www.packtpub.com > <http://www.packtpub.com/> * *Skype*: packt.tusharg > > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
