I'd suggest that this is alarmist. The publishing industry is changing,
and I think that the demographic of people who do use OpenOffice are
familiar and increasingly familiar with online documentation. The
problem with print publication is that it lags software. Check out the
sale books on Microsoft Office, and you'll probably see a lot of books
dormant, occupying space - a reminder that software technology still
moves faster than the publishing industry. And the recording industry.
And the movie industry. And the....
Phil Shapiro wrote:
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 new
openoffice 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 stock
openoffice.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
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