Plea to sell Dan's book widely

[Dan Shafer]

Bob....

Thanks for the vote of support!

There is not much chance I will "slip through RunRevs fingers" although 
I will admit to *some* small degree of frustration at the very low 
numbers of people who have bought my first volume in any form. I don't 
think this says anything other than the community may be smaller 
overall than I suspected. (Of course, I refuse to think it's because my 
book isn't good. Though that remains a possibility.)

I reiterate what I said earlier today in this very interesting 
discussion. I do not believe Rev has any serious chance of making 
significant inroads into the professional development community on ANY 
platform, and certainly not on Windows or (moreso?) on *nix. It will 
always be a product aimed at hobbyist and inventive user class 
developers who do not write code for a living but who have real 
problems to solve at work or at home. That's a huge market, bigger, I 
believe, than the programmer market. But it has to be located and 
convinced.

> Now what I see on the List is a discussion of what can be done with 
> Dan and
> his books!
>
> These are my suggestions (bearing in mind of course that I know 
> absolutely
> nothing of RunRev's finances, but you do not seem to be doing too 
> badly):
>
> 1) This obviously very able author should not be frustrated or (heaven
> forbid) be allowed to slip through RunRev's fingers!
>
> 2) Pay the man generously to do the crucial job of completing the 
> RunRev
> product with the Guide (2 above) in 3 volumes.
>


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Dan Shafer, Revolutionary
Author of  "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought"
http://www.revolutionpros.com for more info
Available at Runtime Revolution Store (http://www.runrev.com/RevPress)