On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Q wrote:
On 23/08/2006, at 6:20 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:
On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Michael Warner wrote:
If I may wax old-school for a moment -- actual, physical books
can make a huge difference in this situation.
I will argue (from some experience) that the situation makes a big
difference in publishers wanting to publish books. Books on WO
and Wonder are not going to make them popular. WO and Wonder
being popular will drive the demand for books which will then get
written. Publishers don't like to invest money in books if they
don't have a reasonable expectation of selling them.
If the objective is not simply to have books on shelves, but rather
to provide a source of published quality material that the WO
community at large can purchase hard copies off, an alternative
would be to develop the said publication(s), either privately or as
a community and use a Print-On-Demand service like Lulu.com instead
of a traditional publisher.
The decision then just lies with the author(s) as to whether they
believe there will be enough demand for such material to
sufficiently remunerate them for their efforts.
To my way of thinking, it is not a matter of a paper copy or of
remuneration (writing a book is easily the least efficient way of
making money). The issue is visibility. Having books on shelves and
in Amazon.com lends much more credibility to the technology than self-
published and self advertised books. That said, if all else fails,
we will likely self publish our next book. But I really hope it does
not come to that.
Chuck
--
Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their
overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific
problems. http://www.global-village.net/products/practical_webobjects
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