[OCLUG-Tech] survey: how do you see the value of linux books these days?

2013-12-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
a general question for the masses -- what value do you see in linux books these days? as a regular editor/proofreader/technical reviewer for a couple prominent computer book publishers, i'm occasionally asked to review a *proposal* for a new book, to judge whether it fills a niche, whether

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] survey: how do you see the value of linux books these days?

2013-12-11 Thread Jean-Francois Messier
I personnally purchase several books, actually eBooks, on different subjects, like Android, Raspberry Pi, etc, etc from different publishers. I like the fact that their text is a flow of information which is perhaps longer than a single article and that much of the info on a given subject is in a

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] survey: how do you see the value of linux books these days?

2013-12-11 Thread paul
Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: a general question for the masses -- what value do you see in linux books... I've been a consumer of such sys admin fare and other dead tree computer related media. I find the value in these is seldom the set this configuration parameter and type

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] survey: how do you see the value of linux books these days?

2013-12-11 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 06:49:17AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: a general question for the masses -- what value do you see in linux books these days? I'll assume you mean Linux and common userland, and not the kernel itself. if people on this list still buy books, how do you judge

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] survey: how do you see the value of linux books these days?

2013-12-11 Thread Rick
I bought KR to pay my dues, similarly the C++ book. I just look things up on the net now. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Alex Pilon a...@alexpilon.ca wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 06:49:17AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: a general question for the masses -- what value do you see in