On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:50:34 +, Federico Lucifredi
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Hey Ben,
How do you feel when you have a nice process in place through
which people are supposed to contact you, and customers keep on
persisting in trying to get direct numbers to inside contacts? I tend
to get irritated by that, but YMMV. Maybe a random editor will be
like me, maybe not.
I am not trying to go *around* the process, I am just trying to get
some advice from someone more in the know than myself, and
someone on the inside is ideal to answer two or three stoopid
questions before I send things in through the appropriate official
channels.
Well from O'Reilly's point of view you certainly are going around
the process, they have somewhere that they want you to start
with to reach them, and you want to go contact an insider instead.
I have no idea how specifical employees there will feel about it
though.
I as asking because, yeah, I can also figure that chromatic and
Rael are editors there, but I am, indeed, concerned about
bugging them out of the blue. Enough said.
You might try contacting any O'Reilly author instead to get
feedback/a better idea who might be sympathetic.
You must have missed Brian's talk of 'bribing' two weeks ago --
I am not going that far (yet!) =)
I definitely did miss that talk. Remember, I'm only possibly
going to move to Boston, right now I'm in Santa Monica.
PS: given how friendly the ppl at Pearson/AW seem to be,
O'Reilly must really be under a deluge of proposals like Uri
noted!
Well, they certainly are popular. (Authors know that any
given title is likely to sell a lot better if it is published by
O'Reilly than it will when published by someone else.)
Cheers,
Ben
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