> $50 is a bit steep for a book Usually author of a book makes 10 to 15 percent of the cover price. So whoever who wrote this book will get 5 bucks a book. Unlike a book widely used, for an example PHP or MySQl, which will sell lot more copies, a book on * will have a narrower readership. Therefore I think price has to be set bit higher than a programming book. It may not be helpful for most of us, but I guess the effort is praiseworthy, knowing that he can't make a fortune out of it.
SW > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mattf > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:47 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] FINALLY! a good book about Asterisk. > > > Hello, > > I was a reviewer of the book, and it is a good beginner book. At over 260 > pages it isn't exactly small and it does contain a lot of information that > is not in the wiki, especially on telco topics and a very > in-depth overview > of Cisco IP phones. > > It does a good job of going over the basics of Asterisk, which in > itself is > a difficult task as some of the basics of Asterisk change rather > frequently. > > > It is a beginner book and doesn't cover some more advanced and more > specialized topics, but it would be a good way for someone who had no > understanding of the telco/VOIP world to get into Asterisk and > set up their > first test system. > > $50 is a bit steep for a book, but I can tell you that they did > put a lot of > effort into creating a comprehensive intro to Asterisk with a > great deal of > the material being written by the authors from scratch, and Asterisk is > still quite a niche market relative to other cheaper technology books out > there justifying the cost a bit more. > > MATT--- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Cherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:58 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] FINALLY! a good book about Asterisk. > > > Joe Babstock wrote: > > There is finally an introductory book about Asterisk! > > It looks like Paul Mahler at www.signate.com wrote it > > with a lot of help from Digium. I looked at the sample > > pages, it looks great. > > And how do you know it's a good book? I wouldn't mind a > review and I may purchase the book (I doubt I qualify > as a reviewer as I haven't yet figured this VoIP stuff > out yet). I'm not really sure a few pages qualifies for > a review. BTW, please excuse me if Paul is a frequent > contributor to the mail list. I just found the method > of announcement a bit suspect (I'm not say Paul posted > this either). > > -- > Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ (Text only) > http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge) > http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II) > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users