I agree with Noah, We have to take the good with the bad otherwise we are inadvertently endorsing specific works as an organization.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Noah Slater" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:55:31 PM Subject: Re: Packt Book - Publish on our website? The minute we do that though, we start to endorse third-party works, and that is a can of worms. On 22 May 2013 20:50, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2013, at 10:37 PM, Ahmad Emneina wrote: > > This strikes me as being along the same lines as having a nascar-esqe > > badging page. IMO the more books, the merrier. No specific endorsements. > > The flip side of this is that many tech books these days are truly > awful. I'd rather point to books we actually recommend and feel are > accurate than just drive traffic to any CloudStack title. > > (I spent quite a lot of time reviewing tech books years ago, and there's > a very, very wide variance in quality out there.) > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier > [email protected] > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > -- NS
