This is good news. AW warned me before setting off on
OpenGL Distilled that "OpenGL beginner books typically don't sell
well," so I should not (and do not) expect sales into the tens of thousands like
the red/blue books. Presumably a comprehensive OSG book would do better than
some type of beginner's guide. Big expensive comprehensive books tend to be the
technical book norm.
-Paul
I've just been posted a couple of questions about the "Programming in Lua" book and community size on the Lua list. This is my original email:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Osfield
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 3:07 PM
To: osg users
Subject: Re: [osg-users] OSG -- near future -- The Book?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/33827
Reply on numbers of the mailing list (1168)
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/33829
Reply on book numbers ( well over 3000 by now I'd guess)
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/33855
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The OSG community is several dozen shy of 1500, but it does give us perhaps a little indicator of how many we might be able to sell of an OpenSceneGraph book, we should be talking about thousands, rather than hundreds.
The Lua book is self published, so there isn't any publisher promoting it, I believe there is also an online version of it now.
Robert.
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