On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Andrew M. Langmead wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:55:45AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure there's no second edition in the works -- more likely it's
> > just a 4 year old book that distributors are deciding not to stock any
> > more.
>
> Even when it is the best book on the subject and all the information
> in the book is relavent to the current version of the language? I'll
> never understand the book publishing business.
Not the publishing business in this case -- I'm sure Manning would be
*thrilled* to sell another 10K-20K copies. :) The problem is, to some
extent, the distributor and retail end of things, but I'd bet the largest
problem is that the book just isn't selling well enough to warrant
stocking, for better or worse. If it's slow to sell, retailers aren't
likely going to replenish stock, which means fewer orders, which means the
publisher's less likely to do another print run if it means that 95% of
the copies will sit in the warehous for a year or more.
Dan
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