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>Btw., for a decade or so O'Reilly actively refused to publish Lisp books - which did not make them very liked in the community. Interesting, any idea why? I w
by vram22 8y ago
>Btw., for a decade or so O'Reilly actively refused to publish Lisp books - which did not make them very liked in the community.
Interesting, any idea why? I would have thought they would have been happy to publish Lisp books, since they have published books on so many other computer subjects. I used to be a huge buyer and reader of their books. Only reason I can think of for them not wanting to publish Lisp books is perceived small market size - do you think that was it? But on the other hand, they did publish books on topics like XML-RPC, which was probably not very much used even when they published a book on it. I had that book, it was about using XML-RPC from multiple languages [1].
[1] Programming Web Services with XML-RPC:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001193.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001193.do
- lispm 8y agoO'Reilly then: We're NOT looking for: Books that overlap too heavily with our existing books. Books on proprietary technologies that don't have a huge user base. Books on miniscule (i.e., personal or nascent) products, even if they are open source. Books on topics that have dismal sales despite quality books being available. (If you're addressing a topic where good books have sold dismally in the past (for instance, LISP, LaTeX, or Web-based training), you have a much higher threshold to clear with your proposal. Convince us why there is a revival of interest in your topic, or why your approach to a deadly topic will provoke interest nonetheless.) Books that have been rejected by other publishers, in most cases.