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Almost nobody buys books anymore.
by hopler 8y ago
Almost nobody buys books anymore.
- snaky 8y agoIn SF, maybe. But most developers in the world live outside of SV (for example, there are on the order of 1M C# developers worldwide). They don't write blogs, or even read them.
- _-___________-_ 8y agoUh... Developer outside of SF (outside of USA, in fact) here. I read blogs, have written them on occasion. Have worked with many developers in many non-SV locales. None of them read programming books, most of them read blogs.
- sedachv 8y ago> Almost nobody buys books anymore. Can you use a search engine before posting nonsubstantive, dismissive comments? https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/75760-print-sales-up-again-in-2017.html https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/b... I am not sure the total count of how many books O'Reilly published last year, but they have not exactly slowed down in releasing new titles: http://shop.oreilly.com/ http://shop.oreilly.com/