[Catalyst] O'Reilly Radar

[Ovid]

--- "Christopher H. Laco" <claco at chrislaco.com> wrote:

> Whah? I think O'Reilly has, or is slipping off the deep end
> over the last year. I'm not sure if it's a 
> too-big-for-our-britches syndrome, or just a loss of touch
> with the community; the flip flop from publishing quality 
> books towards publishing what buzzwords the sheep hear and
> look for.

Since I do a lot of tech reviews for O'Reilly and am fairly familiar
with them, I can assure you that they are not "off the deep end". 
O'Reilly has long had a strong commitment to Perl and the Perl
community.  However, they have no choice but to respond to market
forces.  A publisher who doesn't consider that is doomed.  Putting
together *quality* technical books is very difficult and O'Reilly has
done an admirable job of handling this.

They also, if I recall correctly, have a policy of trying not to
introduce books which compete with other books thay are currently
selling.  This is a *strong* incentive for an author to choose
O'Reilly.  Whether or not that applies in this case is not for me to
say.

Cheers,
Ovid

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