Looking at the B&N web site shows 6 books on openoffice -- 4 published in 2003, one in 2005 and one in 2006. All but the 2005 one are "Not available at this time" not are any used coies available. The 2005 one has a sales rank #99,973 --- not too shabby for a technical book. Remember you can also search online for openoffice books at www.bn.com. Those searches should be tracked also.
Amazon list more than 25 in stock and 5 out-of-stock books, including solveig haughland's book. Beth Avery ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:25 pm Subject: [DDN] user demand for openoffice 2.0 books > > hi Digital Divide Network community - > > the most talented author of books about openoffice, solveig > haughland,blogs that barnes and nobles is telling her publisher > that there is no real > demand for openoffice books and that they won't stock her excellent > newopenoffice 2.0 book. > > see http://openoffice.blogs.com/ > > microsoft in the past has resorted to all sorts of > underhanded tactics. i > don't know if they're resorting to paying barnes and noble to not > stockopenoffice.org books, but it would not surprise me if they were. > > you can do something about this if you live in the united > states (or > canada.) simply call your local barnes and noble bookstore and > inquire if they > sell any books about openoffice.org > > you can bet barnes and nobles keeps track of what books > people are asking > for. please don't call barnes and nobles unless you actually would > buy an > openoffice book. i'm not asking folks to create an artificial > demand for the > book. i'm just asking folks to speak up if this new openoffice.org > book (and > other openoffice.org books) are something you would want to see on > a barnes and > noble bookstore shelf. > > - phil > > Digg http://tinyurl.com/fknbx > > > > Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro > http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com > http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html > > "Wisdom starts with wonder." - Socrates > "Learning happens through gentleness." > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of > the message. > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
