hi Digital Divide Network community - the most talented author of books about openoffice, solveig haughland, blogs that barnes and nobles is telling her publisher that there is no real demand for openoffice books and that they won't stock her excellent new openoffice 2.0 book.
see http://openoffice.blogs.com/ microsoft in the past has resorted to all sorts of underhanded tactics. i don't know if they're resorting to paying barnes and noble to not stock openoffice.org books, but it would not surprise me if they were. you can do something about this if you live in the united states (or canada.) simply call your local barnes and noble bookstore and inquire if they sell any books about openoffice.org you can bet barnes and nobles keeps track of what books people are asking for. please don't call barnes and nobles unless you actually would buy an openoffice book. i'm not asking folks to create an artificial demand for the book. i'm just asking folks to speak up if this new openoffice.org book (and other openoffice.org books) are something you would want to see on a barnes and noble bookstore shelf. - phil Digg http://tinyurl.com/fknbx Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates "Learning happens through gentleness." _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.