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Originally posted by Cindy Glass:
So what is it that makes you decide to buy one technical book over another on the same topic?
The cover?![]()
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Originally posted by Lance Duncan:
please refer to
https://coderanch.com/forums/
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Originally posted by William Brogden:
According to a survey I have been running, when choosing between multiple books on the same topic, the factors in decreasing importance are:
1.Recommendations from friends or online forums
2.Author's reputation
3.Reviews on Amazon
4.Price
5.Publisher's reputation
6.Reviews in magazines
Bill
I'm not going to be a Rock Star. I'm going to be a LEGEND! --Freddie Mercury
Originally posted by William Brogden:
According to a survey I have been running, when choosing between multiple books on the same topic, the factors in decreasing importance are:
1.Recommendations from friends or online forums
2.Author's reputation
3.Reviews on Amazon
4.Price
5.Publisher's reputation
6.Reviews in magazines
Bill
Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
To some extent the cover. The author and the publisher are important.
I'm not going to be a Rock Star. I'm going to be a LEGEND! --Freddie Mercury
Originally posted by Andres Gonzalez:
now that you mentioned this, what is the relation between the author and the publisher? does an author write different if there's a different publisher?
Does Ed Roman change his writing style because he change publisher?
Does the author write and the publisher approves it?
Does the publisher select a topic and choose the best author to write the book? or viceversa (Does Ed Roman come up with a new EJB 3.0 book and starts looking for a publisher?)
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Amazon Top 750 reviewer - Blog - Unresolved References - Book Review Blog
Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
Maybe Ed Roman doesn't change his style but maybe the editors at the publisher suck and screw up the book. I do know that New Riders books that I have read have been consistently awful. AW, Manning, O'Reilly, and APress usually publish good books. I would say that is at least partly because their staff in charge of accepting/rejecting proposals are doing a good job.
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Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger:
Why are we supposed to refer to that thread?![]()
What I look for are examples, examples, examples. A book can explain something to death, but it helps me to see it in a working example. My favorite tech books are those that teach you with a complete application creation walk thru from beginning to end. So when you finish the book, you have a working product.
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