First of all, I would like to thank the JavaRanch Book Review Team for the high rank you have given to the Axis book.
Second, I would like to thank Kyle for his comments on the inclusion of an index in our books and his suggestions about publishing in general.
The decision not to include an index was indeed taken mainly to save on time to market: we anticipated that the benefits to readers of getting information early would outstrip the costs of not having an index. Now we know we were wrong, and all future Wrox books will have an index.
With regards to electronic publishing, I too believe that online searching is a much more powerful way of ultimately finding what you want. We are experimenting with online content through
www.Wroxbase.com. We are in the process of converting our
Java related titles for inclusion there and we expect the process to last until the end of the month.
I wanted to thank you all for taking the time to keep us on the straight and narrow.
Jan Kolasinski
Wrox Publisher