From: jbritt@...
Date: 2003-01-31T05:23:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Books -- A Question

> Rubyists,
>
> I have recently had a very interesting discussion with
> a book publisher about Ruby and Ruby books.  One of the
> things that he mentioned is that Ruby books are not
> really selling many copies.
>
> Do any of the authors on this list have any comments on
> the truth of this statement?  Anyone care to speculate
> as to what may be the cause and what we could do?


My Ruby book was canceled by Wrox because of expected poor sales, based on sales figures for other Ruby books in English.  The
decline in the US economy is a big factor.  Overall, tech book sales were down quite a bit last year.


James Britt