It seems like not having openoffice in barnes and noble might be a gift. a
perfect opportunity to create buzz for a great book...if it is, indeed,
great. the user community will vote with its feet and its pocketbook. imho.
steve snow
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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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