"book related" entries
O'Reilly Radar, other O'Reilly efforts win JOLT awards at SD West
O'Reilly Radar, Beautiful Code, The Myths of Innovaiton, and Safari Books Online win awards at the SD West conference.
A big spike for The Big Switch
We saw an amazing spike in the Bookscan sales data for Nicholas Carr's The Big Switch (a business book about the switch to utility or cloud computing) this past week. We were curious about this huge jump. We see some recent activity in the blogosphere, but nothing jumps out at us as driving this spike. Perhaps there was a…
State of the Computer Book Market, Part 4 – The Languages
We will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area.
Overall the 2007 market for programming languages was down (1.67%) in 2007 when compared with 2006. There were 1,809,695 units sold in 2006 versus 1,779,523 units sold in 2007 which is (30,172) less units in 2007.
State of the Computer Book Market, part 3 — The Publishers
In this third installment we will look at how Publishers fared in 2007 when compared to 2006.
State of the Computer Book Market, Part 2: The Technologies
Recapping the big picture from the last post, you can see that the moderate-to-high growth of Consumer Operating Systems has not been visibly aided by the addition of 47 new Q1 '07 Vista titles, because there were no Vista titles in '06 — hence the black box for Vista. However, the whole Category Family (Consumer Operating Systems) benefits from 47 new titles with more than 86,000 Vista units sold in the first three months of this year.
State of the Computer Book Market, Part 1: The Market
State of the Computer Book Market, Part 1: The Market focuses on comparing 2006 with 2007.
O'Reilly FYI Blog Great Supplement to Radar
There's been a lot going on at O'Reilly recently that I haven't had time to blog about. But as it turns out that there's a great place for many of the stories that I would squeeze into Radar if I had more time, and that's the O'Reilly FYI blog. This is a blog that focuses on news from O'Reilly…
Augmented Reality: A Practical Guide
I'm jealous. The Prags have just published a book I wish I'd thought of first: Augmented Reality: A Practical Guide. I've been talking quite a bit about augmented reality lately, especially when people ask me about what I think might represent a discontinuity significant enough to represent a paradigm shift of the scale of the PC revolution or Web…
Hand of Google
While looking at a library book scanned by Google, I found this image, the hand behind the scanner revealed….
A Year in O'Reilly Books (2007)
I was looking the other day at our internal sales reports, and thought I'd offer a few random reflections based on our changing mix of bestsellers. This is anecdotal data, and for O'Reilly books only, not to be confused with my State of the Computer Book Market posts. (Mike Hendrickson and I are working on one of those as…