Re: Publishing and PostgreSQL

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Jonathan Gennick wrote:

> Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 7:28:38 PM, Simon Riggs (simon@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> SR> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 18:56 -0400, Jonathan Gennick wrote:
>>> BTW, according to Bookscan PostgreSQL accounts for only $47k
>>> of revenue so far this year, less actually than Lisp
>
> SR> Hi Jonathan,
>
> SR> Good to have you post and very interesting too.
>
> SR> You had me until that statement above, cos that just sounds too much
> SR> like a self fulfilling prophecy.... especially since, as we know, the
> SR> current books are all out of date.
>
> I don't doubt that the out-of-date books hurt sales. That's very
> likely true. Whenever you look at those Bookscan numbers you have to
> give a bit of thought pub dates. But the numbers above are the numbers
> that Bookscan reports.
>
> Sometimes you have to think about titles too. I only searched on the
> word "PostgreSQL". Do most PostgreSQL books have that word in the
> title? Perhaps so, but for other topics it isn't quite so easy to pin
> down search terms that take in the entire topic of interest.
>
> And Bookscan numbers represent the past, which may or may not
> correlate to the future.

The past what?  is there a way of seeing last years #s, or the year
before?  To get some sort of 'histogram of sales'?

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