Matthew
Obviously have been through the whole process you are in
the best position to understand this issue.
Is there not some room for an "intemediate" approach -
a *series* of articles on key topics published in on-line
magazines - reasonably well-researched and edited; which
effectively become what would have been chapters in a
book. As you say, maybe its more for the prestige and
reputation rather than the money... but it would also serve
to both bolster Cocoon's status and become the defacto
documentation for all the new features?
Just my .2c
Derek
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> Perhaps the authors of the first Cocoon books could tell us
> whether they got any new business from writing the books?
> That might encourage more people to write Cocoon books.
>
I hear the call :-)
Ok, first thing to say is that the IT book market is still a mess at
the
moment (as it has been for the past 2-3 years). Publishers are very
wary
about bringing out new books (especially on non-mainstream subjects).
Also,
especially in the US, many publishers have merged their inprints -
meaning
that some (such as Pearson) ended up with a couple of Cocoon books
(for
example). This means that some books on a particular subject have
fallen by
the wayside. Our Cocoon book is an example. Our last information from
the
publisher was that there are no plans to do a new version - even though
we
may perhaps want to.
Writing a book (an IT one especially) is - as Erik Hatcher wrote [1] -
"one
of life's greatest sacrifices"
While you shouldn't think of writing an IT book to get rich (although a
few
may), it can certainly help to make you (or your company) known as
someone
with know-how on the subject ("personal marketing" if you will). In the
end
we did get a bit of business from the book but certainly not very much.
To
that respect I would think that articles in key IT magazines (and the
online
versions) are more worthwhile at the moment.
Your mileage may of course vary.
Matthew
[1] - http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/1239
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