OT: Quantum Books closing...

[Bill McGonigle]

On Oct 9, 2007, at 16:15, Paul Lussier wrote:

> She also mentioned that O'Reilly seems rather ambivalent with respect
> to brick'n'mortar book stores, whereas publishers like APress, Addison
> Wessely, etc. are doing a much better job.

There's that, and that Tim O'Reilly is competing with her directly.   
If I were her I wouldn't be excited too push his books.

I have to profess a respect for books' content yet.  I had to look up  
some stuff on a PIX a few minutes ago, so I reached for my PIX book.   
My alternatives are Googling and getting Cisco's obtuse  
documentation, finding some barely relevant information on Experts  
Exchange, and seven dozen conflicting bits of advice from mailing  
list conversations.  Linux information tends to be easier to find  
online, so some of this is domain-specific.

Also, O'Reilly's Safari engages in page cloaking towards the search  
engines.  I half-expect that the Google people are looking at my  
complaints saying, "I don't get it, I see the content there, not an  
advertisement for Safari..."  They're wasting my time, so I'm even  
less likely to support them.

-Bill



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