Bill McGonigle
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:25:47 -0700
On Oct 9, 2007, at 16:15, Paul Lussier wrote: > She also mentioned that O'Reilly seems rather ambivalent with respect > to brick'n'mortar book stores, whereas publishers like APress, Addison > Wessely, etc. are doing a much better job.
There's that, and that Tim O'Reilly is competing with her directly. If I were her I wouldn't be excited too push his books. I have to profess a respect for books' content yet. I had to look up some stuff on a PIX a few minutes ago, so I reached for my PIX book. My alternatives are Googling and getting Cisco's obtuse documentation, finding some barely relevant information on Experts Exchange, and seven dozen conflicting bits of advice from mailing list conversations. Linux information tends to be easier to find online, so some of this is domain-specific. Also, O'Reilly's Safari engages in page cloaking towards the search engines. I half-expect that the Google people are looking at my complaints saying, "I don't get it, I see the content there, not an advertisement for Safari..." They're wasting my time, so I'm even less likely to support them. -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/