What do you mean by "double standard"?
Javaranch is an open community where everybody is free to contribute or not. If Kathy and Bert want to give some insights about their book and make people benefit from it before it goes on the shelves, they are free to do so.
If Pradeep Chopra wants to allow people to give comments about one of his article on the
EJB certification, he is also free to do so.
My apologies if I missed your point, but I do not really see what you want to express. Please enlighten us
Moreover, I hope you don't mind if I move this to the Javaranch forum since this post is not really relevant to the EJB certification.
[ September 10, 2003: Message edited by: Valentin Crettaz ]