On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 01:35:25AM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > All, > > I have been looking for commercial books written about Debian and there is > very little selection. I am considering writing an updated Debian GNU/Linux > Bible for Bookworm/Trixie. Before I started writing it I was wondering if > anyone would even be interested in buying a copy of it? >
I've been into a couple of the largest bookshops in UK in the last few months - there are fewer and fewer physical books on shelves. A Debian specific book would be welcome - but the Debian Handbook already covers much of that. We may end up with refugees from Red Hat distros in due course but learning apt covers much of that. (If you can use GNOME in one distro, it's similar in all - and I'm not sure when Ubuntu last published a handbook, for example). The big Linux System Administration Handbook - the one with three authors including Evi Nemeth - is a really good example of something with masses of good general information but almost nobody has it. O'Reilly books are primarily online now: I think it would be hard to find a niche that would fit a new book or a physical book publisher to take it (and no, I'm not thinking of the average print on demand publisher who mostly specialises in of out of copyright books, though that might be an option). The Red Hat certification market has three or four books: it might be that maddog and the Linux Professional Institute would be interested as their courses cover all distros. Yes, I'd probably buy a copy - I have a physical copy of most of the Debian books that there are. The most useful at one point was probably the O'Reilly one which came with a CD. I do tend to rely on the knowledge and expertise here: Greg - how would you rate the chances of physical copies of your Bash guides, for example? All the very best, as ever, > Thanks > > Tim > > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
