Joe you have a good point. I guess the best solution is to exclude any books from the site. If you want to endorse a book, do it on your blog.
Fair to everyone. Good book will be noticed on amazon (or elsewhere) and praised by readers. We don't need to endorse good or bad books, neither do we have to spend our time reviewing them and/or be responsible for any mistakes, or hurt someone's feeling for not choosing their book. Best option in my opinion is to be neutral. -------- Original message -------- From: Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> Date: To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Packt Book - Publish on our website? On Fri, May 24, 2013, at 10:29 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Despite the willingness of people to cast 0 votes, it is obvious that > there are strong and valid feelings towards both sides of our current HOW > options. So, I'd actually lean towards a -1 on including all titles. I just don't think we do the community any favors by taking the path of least resistance and helping publicize any book with "CloudStack" in the title regardless of quality. Yes, it's more work to actually review books. Yes, people might be unhappy if their title isn't chosen - but what's the effect on the project if someone picks up a book that is inaccurate and fails in setting up or running CloudStack because the book isn't good? Are they going to know it's the book and not a bug with the project? We've discussed this pretty thoroughly, though. Does anyone want to put out a firm proposal one way or another and see if it gets consensus? Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier [email protected] Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
