Hi,
Will the whole book be made available electronically for free
download?
Thanks,
Siddharth.
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 Geoff Shilling wrote :
>Good points for sure. Thanks for the feedback. We will
>certainly
>consider these.
>
>Geoffs
>
>-----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Nutt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 7:50 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Fresh chapters
>
>
>[Intended to be friendly comments -- I like the book]
>
>Interesting that (at least some) people are thinking that this
>book is
>mainly aimed at academia. As an academic and textbook author, I
>think
>it is aimed at the technical reference market -- O'Reilly's bread
>and
>butter.
>
>The trouble with omitting all motivation and context is that
>readers
>vary from those that know everything but the details (people who
>already
>have enough context to go straight to the heart of the matter),
>to those
>that know a related area and are trying to see what this is about
>(they
>want to see what is the same/different from something they know
>about),
>to those that are learning about the topic (runtime systems) for
>the
>first time.
>
>For the Stutz, et al Rotor book, those that are not on this inner
>circle
>of thought will have to be brought up to speed with some kind
>of
>supplementary material before they can harvest the content with
>ease.
>Textbook authors do this with a quick description of the space,
>issues,
>and approach, then use references when they don't want to spend
>more
>time creating the context. In this sense, the draft materials
>that I
>have read do not provide much context, e.g., there are no
>references
>(not even to web pages). Of course this is perfect for those in
>the
>inner circle of the topic who just want to know more about how
>THIS code
>works; but it is an annoyance to people who know the area, but
>not much
>about the target technology; and a real problem for readers
>trying to
>learn the topic (like many academic readers). Even as an
>advanced
>textbook (very small market), this book would need more context
>to be
>widely acclaimed.
>
>Gary
>
>
>
>On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Michael H.C. Cummings wrote:
>
> > I would always think that the that part is written for the
>person who
> > is browsing the bookstore, like at a Borders, and already has
>heard of
>
> > .Net but not necessarily about ROTOR. That section can then
>give them
> > some idea of why they might want to look into it further,
>especially
> > by using your book ;).
> >
> > Although your book's target audience is mainly academia, they
>won't be
>
> > the only ones to buy it. The question there is; is that sector
>of the
> > market large enough to warrant more elaboration. I would think
>so.
> >
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