Addison-Wesley is a fine technical publisher with some great titles. To be sure, there are some publishers whose names (or cover styles) you recognize. They don't assume anything other than that you're marginally familiar with the English language and that you don't really have much time to spare. They won't assume you know any math, which is a good thing, because I do all my basic arithmetic using a desk calculator now (M-x calc!). A big, ugly creature on the cover, that's what you should expect.
And more importantly, you're getting a consistent experience. You know you're getting consistent quality - not necessarily great quality, but it's consistent. O'Reilly is the Starbucks/McDonalds of technical publishing. I'll give ya three guesses the first two don't count.
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Like the new Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook - it's pretty cool, even if the only reason I bought it was to see if you could subclass enums, and the guy asks if any readers have figured out how to do it yet. Oh! What about that new "Developer's Notebook" series? That publisher is definitely thinking practically. You know, Google Hacks, Excel Hacks, Amazon Hacks. So you can't really trust either of them to be open-minded.Īh, got it! There's that publisher that does the "Hacks" series. Well, I suppose we've got Sun Press and Microsoft Press, but oddly enough, both of them seem to focus mostly on Sun or Microsoft technologies, respectively. it's on the tip of my tongue they're that sort of O'Reilly-like one. Some examples of (non-O'Reilly) publishers that come to mind as consistently excellent publishers of technical literature: Um.
I just visited their website to make sure it was really Sams, and yep, most of their books have anywhere from two to ten authors. The authors are evidently unaware of each others' existence, and they often wind up covering the same material redundantly in different chapters - sometimes even with conflicting terminology or outright contradictions. The books are typically thrown together by multiple authors, each writing different chapters. I've bought a few of their titles and have been uniformly horrified at the quality. Have you noticed how occasionally a publisher will intrude into your consciousness as being exceptionally good (or bad)?Įxample: I think of SAMS publishing as being an atrociously bad publishing house.
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