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:Will We See Any More Linux System Administration Books in the Future?
Will We See Any More Linux System Administration Books in the Future?
May 28, 2007, 20 :00 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (7636 reads)

(Other stories by Tom Adelstein)

"A reliable source says the days of Linux sysadmin books have ended. If you can barely sell 5,000 copies, then why bother? Programming books continue to sell at a fast pace, so you can guess where job demand in IT has gone.

"'Linux System Administration' LSA (ISBN-10: 0596009526) written by me and Bill Lubanovic took a monumental effort. I signed the first contract in the fall of 2004 and O'Reilly released it in March 2007. Granted it's a high level admin book and not another command line collection of man pages. With the growing number of Linux power users wanting to make the leap to administering servers, shouldn't the demand translate to sales...?"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
The publishers had better learn that wha ...   The days of $40-100 textbooks is over   
Richard Steven Hack
May 28, 2007, 20:51:51
 
I bought my admin books (now obsolete) y ...   Saturated market   
philc
May 29, 2007, 00:57:42
 
Unlike some OS's Linux doesn't c ...   Linux/Unix Doesn't Change Needlessly   
david
May 29, 2007, 02:03:22
 
Maybe that's because the existing bo ...   Different market, maybe?   
Alain Borel
May 29, 2007, 07:15:09
 
>>The publishers had better learn that w ...   Re: The days of $40-100 textbooks is over   
microserf
May 29, 2007, 14:13:45
 
I've bought many linux admin books a ...   That's because they aren't accurate   
Tim Spencer
May 29, 2007, 16:59:01
 
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