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Publishers have it hard but tech publishers especially so - considering all of the free sources of information on the Internet. Between online documentation, bl
by Crontab 9y ago
Publishers have it hard but tech publishers especially so - considering all of the free sources of information on the Internet. Between online documentation, blogs, forums, and tutorials, one can generally find the information they are looking for if they seek it hard enough.
All that said, there is something to be said for a well written article or book by someone with a command of language and a love for teaching.
- pmlnr 9y agoInterestingly I'm finding it harder and harder to find good howtos. Most of them offer too little, too specogic topic, or vaguely generic examples.
- emmelaich 9y agoYeah, the tldp is way out of date but still comes up high in web searches. I use Fedora/Centos/Redhat mostly and I find the best quality docs are on arch linux wiki Fedora site stackexchange Ubuntu answers You can also get the official Redhat docs if you sign in. I'm pretty sure it's free.
- sitkack 9y agoLots of data, but not much information. Before, tech books were an oasis because there wasn't much of anything anywhere. Now it is the opposite, too much of everything everywhere, I need someone to condense it down into a form I can use.
- billpollock 9y agoThat can change; it depends on the publisher's perspective and goals. Our goal is always to publish fewer better books. (I stole that line from Prentice Hall. They forgot it years ago. :)
- billpollock 9y agoI definitely agree. Book publishing, in my opinion, needs to shift to meet the changing needs of readers. Many tech book publishers continue to publish the way they have for the last 20+ years but the world has changed. We don't need more, poorly written and poorly edited documentation. We need better books.