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> -----Original Message----- > From: Rich Anderson [mailto:rja@a...] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 6:49 PM > To: Box, Don; xml-dev@x... > Subject: Re: good book on XML > > > Esposito), but the average wrox book cover has more > head-shots than Cindy > > Crawford's portfolio. > > Do people care how many people write a book ? As I tried to state earlier, it depends on your definition of "book." A book like Advanced CORBA Programming in C++ couldn't be written by 15 authors. Nor could The Practice of Programming. Nor could Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. Nor could Applied Cryptography. Maybe I'm overly romantic, but I feel a book should contribute something to the discussion at large. A book should shape the reader's understanding and provoke further investigation. > I dont think > so. Everything > else in the world ( techologies, standards etc etc) aren't > written by one > person so why should books be any different ? My wife just found out she is pregnant. Making a baby only required one other participant (me), not 15. Why should books be any different? ;-) > Whats important is that you > get a book when you need it, it contains content that addresses your > problems, and that it is co-ordinated. I think you are referring to documentation. Books like the Henning/Vinoski book came out after a large portion of the CORBA code of the world had already been written, yet it will easily outlast all other books that were available when people "needed it." > > in to the XML world. I for one would rather see something > coordinated by > > folks with a grounding in traditional publishing than an ad > hoc effort > > I'd go for the opposite, death to all tradional publishers, long live > e-publishers ;) ;) I think you are misunderstanding me. I am NOT dismissing the value of electronic publication of all sorts of content, including book-length works. However, the fast-turnaround model implied by web-based publishing (and wrox) is really magazine-like, not book-like. I look at publishing via the web as a bigger threat to Miller-Freeman, Sys-Con, or Fawcette than to AW, PH, or O'Reilly. DB http://www.develop.com/dbox *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/threads.html ***************************************************************************
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