From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T00:01:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Books -- A Question

On Friday 31 January 2003 07:43 am, Sperberg, Roger wrote:

> "Retail book publishers are in trouble. A decade ago, they could
> expect a healthy 10% profit margin selling books in bookstores. Now
> publishers' profits are less than half that, averaging around 4%.
> Their bookstore sales have also dropped in each of the past five
> years."

OUCH! sign of the times i guess. but God save the trees! or as my pappy use to 
say:

	"kill a beer, save a tree."

i've thought of a book that might do well though, and be helpful to ruby, 
basically entitled: Why You Should Program in Ruby. very point blank ruby 
evangelism. it would be a small book, maybe 100 pages with all the neato 
pragmatic programming and design pattern ideas and good examples of all the 
great ways in which ruby can improve a programmer's programming.

just a thought. could be a fun little project for the right persons.

by the way, if you're wondering about Pappy's quote, its a drunken slip on:

	"kill a beaver, save a tree" ;-)

-- 
tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net