I look at it a different way. Tapestry is Tapestry. Most people who would buy the book won't be tapestry experts, and won't know which book to buy, which will add to the confusion.
Most technical books go from simple to more advanced, and don't make you buy an 'advanced' book. IoC, etc. chapters can be in the "Advanced" section. Also, there is a huge downside to fragmentation. In my opinion, Java (et all) for all its greatness, and due to it's community involvement (which is a good thing) has one weak point- there are sometimes 1000s different ways to do the same thing, and can lead to choice anxiety http://jamesshelley.net/2011/08/choice-anxiety/ which can be paralyzing and wastes time. If you want to limit your book for the experts, there are too few of those to be worthwhile, so, your book should be aimed at people who know nothing about tapestry-ioc, and the logical choice is to combine yours and Igor's efforts. I know it's cool (and easier) to try to publish your own book, but in this context, I don't think its a good idea to have more than one. On Aug 7, 2013, at 7:49 AM, Thiago H de Paula Figueiredo wrote: > On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 01:34:30 -0300, Lenny Primak <lpri...@hope.nyc.ny.us> > wrote: > >> I was going to write a message, but most of what I wanted to say was already >> said. >> I am not sure that there is enough of an audience for two books. > > Even if the two books cover have different content and focuses? Igor's book > level is beginner to mid-level, mine would be mid-level to advanced, mostly > advanced. > >> Perhaps you can cooperate with Igor to get your content into his book? > > I'm not sure having a single Tapestry bible-like book would be a good idea. > It would need to cost more, and people don't usually buy expensive books. The > ones who already bought Igor's book would probably not want to pay even more > to buy a book that a large part of it they already have. And people who > already know Tapestry would have to pay for an expensive, long book just for > part of it. > >> There would be a lot of marketing synergy there at least. > > That I agree, but I don't think it makes business sense, as I described above. > > -- > Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
