> No offense taken. I haven't bought a CF book in wow, nearly a decade > since none of them are truly good. Like I said, the problem is the > market is too small for a big publisher to take a risk. Breakeven on > a > book for an O'Reilly or Wiley is between 6000 and 8000 copies > depending on the size/price, and all the investment is upfront.
This is a catch-22. Assuming you are correct (a large if), then the onus clearly falls on Adobe to publish a quality reference book. If no one else can, and they decide not to, then they choose actively to watch CF crumble and eventually fail. Even if you are wrong and anyone could make money from a book, I don't know why Adobe wouldn't publish one. I can't imagine that the cost of producing and publishing a quality book would be more than a drop in the bucket next to the development cost of Scorpio. Ben Forta published two MX7 books, though both were hard to read, too thick, poorly indexed and could not be used as references. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279298 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
