On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:27:29PM -0700, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > You can write all you want, but if a publisher won't print it, you're > > out of luck. Publishers are very leery of things that are obsolete > > before they're printed. I'm not saying it *can't* be done, but it > > would be difficult to get a publisher to bite. > > Not necceserily, a person from Addison Wesley , was interested in > publishing the developer's handbook, when it was filled with information. > I am not trying to argue though. :-)
Interested? Yes. Look at the license on the dev handbook; no author royalties makes such a publishing venture much more likely. And there's a *big* gap between interest and a signature on the dotted line. Been there, done that. I know of well over a dozen FreeBSD books that have had a contract signed, and then been dropped before the book was published. And I'm sure there's more out there. Nailing down interfaces would be a big help in actually making such a book come to fruition. ==ml -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
