Re: Publishing and PostgreSQL

Yes, I think Josh left out that part of the story... that for a lot of people
qualified to write a book you can make more doing consulting work.

Robert Treat

On Thursday 11 August 2005 01:38, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> I have asked by our russian publisher to write book but they pay too
> little. This is a main reason I'm not an author, in spite of I understand
> it's important
>
> Oleg
>
> btw, Josh, your messages contain some bad characters which break my1;2c
> termina1;2cl1;2c1;2c1;2c1;2c1;2c. 1;2c
>
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Tom, Jonathan, Folks,
> >
> >> This is preaching to the choir, but it'd be great if some more books on
> >> PostgreSQL appeared.  I've got the pink O'Reilly one (Practical
> >> PostgreSQL?) but it's getting pretty long in the tooth...
> >
> > Actually, the big problem with PostgreSQL books is not lack of demand but
> > lack of authors. I've had requests from a number of publishers, and our
> > own book (m1;2ce & Joe) is running behind due to overwork.
> >
> > Finding database book authors period is hard, because the people most
> > qualified to write database books generally don't have time to do so.
> > The MySQL community, for whatever reason has done a good job of promoting
> > qualified people to write.
> >
> > So what I'm saying is that nobody can criticize ORA for not publishing
> > Postgres books when they're not getting any proposals. If anyone reading
> > this thread would *like* to be a postgreSQL book author, e-mail me, I'll
> > hook you up (not necessarily with O'Reilly).
> >
> > BTW, Jonathan, I get the feeling that Bookscan results (for some reason)
> > only cover about 20% of sales for tech books. At least, I was able to
> > check royalty statements with couple of authors, and they indicated that
> > the authors sold at least 4x what BookScan reports. Does this match ORA
> > figures?
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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