Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:07 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> >> As I may have said, everyone I know in computers has a number of books >> from this publisher - he specializes in not only finding people who >> really, really know their subject, but CAN ALSO COMMUNICATE WHAT THEY >> KNOW (as opposed to, say, the BAL textbook I had in college, many years ago, >> that if I could have gotten the rights to, I'd put all the >> pharmaceutical co's market for sleeping pills out of business....) > > I don't' know anything about this book or publisher, but you really Les, you don't know O'Reilly? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. Almost every programmer I know, and every admin, had somewhere between one O'Reilly book and a full shelf of them. (No, I'm not getting a kickback from O'Reilly). He became a publisher, as I understand, in the late eighties, when he put out five volume set, co-written by him, on working with and programming X. They actively encourage group book buys - I've both participated in them, and once set up one, back in the nineties (never again, trying to get 20 or so folks to pass in the selections and money....). The discounts hit very quickly, starting at 10 books (10%? 15%?) and once you go over 50 books, I think, from there to 199 books, it's a 45% discount off cover. I know he's in wikipedia.... mark