Re: "Test Driving Linux" Released by O'Reilly
From: Bill Campbell (bill_at_celestial.com)
Date: 05/24/05
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:44:46 -0700 To: sco-misc@lists.celestial.com
On Tue, May 24, 2005, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>In article <f5CdneHNdrPYiA_fRVn-rA@taconic.net>,
>Tony Lawrence <foo@pcunix.com> wrote:
>>Brian K. White wrote:
>>> OK I hate to be a party pooper but think I'm kinda tired of the ads if they
>>> are going to be this frequent.
>>>
>>> I don't mind, actually I appreciate, the occasional advertizement showing up
>>> here if the product is on topic and not otherwise well known, or
>>> _infrequent_ informative updates about products even if they are well known
>>> as long as they are topical.
>>>
>>> While many of the O'Reilly books are topical here, and these ads could be
>>> called informative updates, they are apparently not going to be infrequent
>>> and I think everyone knows for a long time by now that the O'Reilly books
>>> exist, where to find them, that new ones are always coming out, and what
>>> their average usefulness is.
>
>>And I'm getting annoyed by how much the quality of O'Reilly books has
>>deteriorated. I'm not saying they are publishing worthless junk now,
>>but I think their standards are not what they used to be. Just my
>>opinion, but it used to be that if I saw an O'Reilly title on a subject
>>I wanted to know more about, I'd just buy it. Now I pick it up and look
>>through a few chapters to see if it's worth the money. Often it still
>>is, but not always. Maybe it's always been that way and things look
>>more idyllic in hindsight..
>
>A lot of that has to do with the way the world of computers has
>changed. O'Reilly started publishing when computer books were few
>and far between - and I still have a couple of the Nutshell books
>with the spiral binding and brown cover with a nut.
You have a spiral binding? My brown cover versions of ``Managing UUCP and
USENET'', ``Using UUCP and USENET'', ``Reading and Writing Termcap
Entries'', and ``Programming with Curses'' are all simply stapled. All but
the ~Managing UUCP...'' are 1985 copyrights, and that one is 1986. The
price on the cover from InfoPro Systems is $8.00 for one book, $7.50 for
2-10, and $7.00 each for more than 10 books.
>It's a fourth priniting of Managing Usenet and UUCP printed in
>1987 - with it's original price sticker of $18.00 still on the
>cover. You certainly got a lot of bang for the buck in those
>days. It listed all 9 of their Unix books.
...
Bill
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