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"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com> writes:
> igraham@ic-unix.ic.utoronto.ca (Ian Graham) writes:
> >Is there any data explaining 'why' people by technical (e.g. XML)
> >books?
>
> The main theories are that people buy books:
>
> * Because they NEED them to solve an immediate problem
>
> * Because they FEAR they won't keep their job if they don't learn it
>
> * Because they WANT to expand their knowledge in a particular area
>
> * Because they want to GIVE a book to someone else
Do you target books toward a specific category on this list? I've just
gone though Dave P's FO which I *bought* and paged through some months
ago because of (3) but which I didn't *read* until (1) happened. Having
read it, I'm not sure which category it could fit best.
Do you have (or release) statistics on how many copies of a given
title yo sell? Can you say if books that are available online sell
better or worse than those that aren't? Norman Walsh's DocBook for
instance?
On an unrelated topic, mail.simonstl.com bounces mail from this
account. Please email me offline with an address and I'll send you the
SMTP transcript.
Ari.
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