Books Do Not Have Lift
July 30, 2009
Mike Hendrickson posted his mid-2009 State of the Computer post on O’Reilly Radar at http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/07/state-of-the-computer-book-mar-25.html. He’s tracking sales of computer industry books, and sales are going down, down, down in a possible reflection of the economy. On the other hand, if you’re looking for technical information and how-to’s for systems like Windows Vista, Mac Programming, or SharePoint, wouldn’t you start on the Internet? We would. There’s so much good real-time data out there to crunch (if you’re willing to put in a little extra work ). That combined with the exponential growth of the Internet is going to put more nails into traditional media’s coffin. Book readers are mostly oldsters and the younger folks seem to relate to fresher media.
Jessica Bratcher, July 30, 2009
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