Wally,

Sorry to hear that your efforts have been disrupted. I can understand that
you would not want to release the book into such uncertainty and that your
audience is not going to be clamouring like it was before.

I think you CAN guess when it would be sensible to return though. Miguel has
stated that he expects new products to be in beta in 3-4 months with .NET
for Android trailing .NET for iOS by about a month. As an author, I am
pretty sure that Xamarin will be willing to give you pretty solid
information on the timeline as those dates grow closer.

So, I guess it depends on where in the life cycle of the new product you
want to launch a book. Do you want to be there when the product launches? Do
you want to gauge it's popularity first? Do you want to wait until it
matures a bit?

It is a lot harder for me to guess when you will release your book than it
is for me to guess when .NET for Android will be available.

I admit though that these are just guesses. There are a lot of variables
that could impact things between now and then.

2011/5/17 Wally McClure <[email protected]>

>  Just to let everyone know, the book is on hold.  It went on hold Friday
> night.  All of my coauthors know it is on hold.  Apologies, but we can't
> share any documents or code.  My guess from the Miguel blog post is that it
> will return in the future.  With no product to work from and no apparent
> support from Attachmate, we can't guess when it will return.
>
> I'm not sure how amazon charges on this, but I bet you could take it off of
> preorder.  [image: Sad smile]
>
> Wally
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 16:25:03 +1000
> From: [email protected]
>
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [mono-android] What the hell..
>
> OUCH!
> How will this impact on the Wrox book to be released, I've pre-ordered with
> Amazon?
>
> *Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C#*
>
> I've been waiting for this and spending many hours dedicated to Monodroid..
> loosing start up companies in this process is really unfair.
> Very disjointed takeover from Attaché Mate, many people negatively impacted.
> :(
>
> Glen
>
>
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