Re: A WTF in the Oracle reference...

Joel Garry wrote:
> thomas.kyte_at_oracle.com wrote:

....
>
> And now some publishers are even trying to get you to pay for the
> privilege: http://www.oreilly.com/roughcuts/faq.csp
>
> Yet Another Reason To Prefer Certain Authors.

Well, that should really be "prefer certain PUBLISHERS", this isn't really in the hands of the authors (not much is, believe me :)

<quoted from that link>
You can read it online, download as a PDF, or print. Once you've purchased a Rough Cuts title, you have a chance to shape the final product - you can send suggestions, bug fixes, and comments directly to the author and editors.
</quote>

They figured out how to get the reviewers to PAY THEM instead of the other way around!

>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> "I've got the MCSA/MCSE Training Kit, but recently I've found numerous
> errors, so many that I was sent a free Press Kit book, for submitting
> all of the errors I had found." -
> http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/01/25/0041257.shtml
Received on Thu Jan 26 2006 - 08:41:11 CST