In article <0p60j4-mie.ln1@
kantaka.co.uk>,
Phil Armstrong
kantaka.co.uk> wrote:
> Jon Harrop
ffconsultancy.com> wrote:>> Phil Armstrong wrote:
>>> O'Reilly appears to be taking a punt on a Haskell book, so presumably
>>> they think Haskell has reached the necessary critical mass within
>>> their market to make it worth publishing something.
>>
>> Very interesting. I'm just reading Paul Hudak's "The Haskell School of
>> Expression", which is excellent.
>
> That's the multimedia based one?
>
>> Incidentally, did you see my take on Tim O'Reilly's analysis of book sales?
>> I didn't realise we could compete with mainstream publishers... :-)
>
> Don't think so. I only vaguely remember the Tim O'R piece -- the bit
> that sticks in the mind is that their Lisp books had appalling sales
> (except for the emacs one)..
O'Reilly had Lisp books? Where did you get that idea?
AFAIK, there has not one Lisp book being published by
O'Reilly, besides "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions".
They discourage authors to propose Lisp books to them
on their website. The current wording is a bit less
unfriendly than it used to be. Probably a Lisp book
would also take more work than their business allows?
One of the current Lisp books is 'Practical Common Lisp'
by Peter Seibel. It has been published online (as PDF) and
printed by Apress:
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=237
Two printings at together 8000 copies and now the
third printing. I guess even such an useful book
is not sold in numbers interesting for 'O'Reilly'.
>
> Phil
