Tim Maher writes: > I've tried this, but most have experience with only one publisher, > and for that reason aren't capable of making comparisons. Hence my > appeal to this "Elite Fraternity of Perl Educators" for additional > input! 8-}
I'd ask Tim Jenness, Simon Cozens, and Dave Cross about Manning. I'd ask Geoff Young, Randy Kobes, and Paul Lindner about Sams. Brent Michalski's written for Wiley. For AWL, I'd ask Brent again, Kevin Meltzer, Lincoln Stein, and Joseph Hall (he might be biased--I think he's some kind of acquisition consultant for them :-). Simon's also written for Wrox, I believe. > if publishers currently provide artistic resources to their authors. > I'm guessing they don't, judging from the conspicuous absence of > a single diagram in the Camel or the Cookbook, but thought I'd > ask anyway. Oh we do. There is a diagram in the Cookbook, I believe, maybe two. Filesystems and references are where I'd look for them. We provide illustrators to redraw whatever you do. They'll take coffee-stained napkins and produce glorious PostScript. This makes the illustrations in all our books look consistent, which is good. I imagine that most other publishers do this, too. http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ is a good place to start if you're wondering what life is like as an author. Nat
