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It's really alien to me to judge a book based on its publisher. Whenever I need a book I check out reviews on Amazon or on programming sites to find the best in
by bjterry 13y ago
It's really alien to me to judge a book based on its publisher. Whenever I need a book I check out reviews on Amazon or on programming sites to find the best in class. Is there a reason that it matters that I'm not thinking of?
- vidarh 13y agoIt mattered a lot before. If you had no online reviews to go by, going into a book store and picking up an O'Reilly book was a reasonably good bet. It doesn't matter so much now, and it also only worked because O'Reilly was a small publisher who had the benefit of being able to be really picky about authors and subjects. It doesn't scale when you want to get a large number of books out on subjects where you may have very little choice in authors. How many people are qualified to write a book about [insert random 5 months old javascript library of the week]? Often it might be a handful of people, several of whom won't be interested and/or are bad writers.