I have heard a lot of wishfulness (if not actual complaints), both among people contacting O'Reilly and on this mailing list, about the third edition of the Nutshell and our cutting back to Level 1. The reason is simply timing. I would have loved to put Level 2 into the book. But the book was already far behind the release of the test, and it took superhuman efforts on the authors' parts to finish the material for Level 1--material I think you'll be happy with.
I was the editor for the second edition too. We decided to cover both Levels (there was no Level 3 yet) but the book was tremendously late. It was a horrendous effort and we even considered dropping Level 2 or splitting Level 2 off into a second volume. We ended up not dropping Level 2 because we had advertised it. We didn't put it into a separate volume because, at that time, we thought there were too few people taking the course. (It's interesting, though, that our Japanese office put out translations of the book in two volumes.) Let's look at the sales of the third edition and try to judge whether we could sell enough copies of a Level 2 book to take it on. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Oram O'Reilly Media email: [email protected] Editor 10 Fawcett Street, Fourth Floor voice: 617-499-7479 Cambridge, MA 02138, USA fax: 617-661-1116 identi.ca/twitter:praxagora http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
