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Re: [cobalt-users] No Hope
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] No Hope
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Oct 18 22:45:00 2000
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Tony wrote:
> Not necessarily true...depends on the publisher and your literary agent.
I know. I'm published.
> Have all of the more arcane O'Reilly books been million+ sellers? Probably
> not.
I specifically said "for Dummies". That's the style I write in. I
don't write in "O'Reilly style". If the local Sams Club can't sell a
few hundred of them, they won't publish the title. Plain and simple.
> Also electronic self-publishing is a reality now via the web.
And I thought I said I didn't want to do it that way.
Jeff (who's currently behind on a book for a software publisher)
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