Re: O'Reilly

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 11:23 -0200, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> Related questions:
> * Have you ever seen PiL in a bookstore shelf?

Just once, in Foyles in London. On the games programming shelves. One
copy only.

> * Are technical books sold mainly online?

I personally like to pick them up in a bookshop to look at.

> * How much the publisher's name impact a book sales?

In my experience -- unless it's O'Reilly who manage to sell some utter
tosh because of their name, I'd say it doesn't really tend to affect
sales.

D.

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