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Re: Re: Ask O'Reilly for a new edition to REALbasic: The DefinitiveGuide

To: "Dave" <mrtoast at gmail dot com>, "REALbasic NUG" <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Re: Ask O'Reilly for a new edition to REALbasic: The DefinitiveGuide
From: "Keith Hutchison" <keith dot hutchison at balance-infosystems dot com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 06:49:21 +1000
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> > On Aug 30, 2004, at 6:32 PM, Tim Jones wrote:
> >
> > > This may be a good start, but the word I got at from the O'Reilly
> > > booth at WWDC was that the developer-oriented books were not doing too
> > > well and a future release was not even being considered at that time.
> > >
> >
> > Did they mean that developer-oriented books aren't selling well in
> > general?
> >
> > Charles Yeomans
>
> You bring up an interesting point.  Doesn't O'Reilly publish books
> primarily for developers?  I wasn't aware that they had very many
> consumer books.
>

I think straight PDF editions would be suitable for developers.
I'd buy a PDF version of a book before I'd buy a hard copy.

Keith Hutchison
Balance-Infosystems.Com

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