Re: Author a Book on Clojure - Packt Publishing

2014-12-26 Thread Tushar Gupta
Hello Jan, Firstly apologies for the inconvenience you faced in working with us. This may be an exceptional, one off situation where in such a thing happened. We definitely do not focus on quantity, our first and foremost priority is quality of the content and knowledge to share with our reader

Re: Author a Book on Clojure - Packt Publishing

2014-12-23 Thread blake
I've worked with a number of publishers over the years and it's not unusual for the process to be mired in typical corporate tech thought. Publishing is not a tech business: You can usually expect things tied to Microsoft products. On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Jan-Paul Bultmann < janpaulbultm.

Re: Author a Book on Clojure - Packt Publishing

2014-12-23 Thread Rafik NACCACHE
I also reviewed a book on "Machine Learning in Clojure". That was a pleasure to read and I learned a couple of things! I recommend them too. Le lundi 22 décembre 2014 14:41:41 UTC+1, Michael Klishin a écrit : > > On 22 December 2014 at 13:39:12, Jan-Paul Bultmann ( > janpaulbultm...@googlemail.

Re: Author a Book on Clojure - Packt Publishing

2014-12-22 Thread Michael Klishin
On 22 December 2014 at 13:39:12, Jan-Paul Bultmann (janpaulbultm...@googlemail.com) wrote: > It feels to me that this publisher is just a book mill that goes > for quantity and not quality. > I couldn't make it thought a single book I bought from them because > reading them felt like a waste o

Re: Author a Book on Clojure - Packt Publishing

2014-12-22 Thread Jan-Paul Bultmann
Just my 50 cent. I was asked to do a technical review on a Clojure podcasts by packtpub once. The "storyboard" they send me consisted of a word file containing a huge table with text and source code. Why would anybody send a technical reviewer source code in a word document, yet alone in a tab

Author a Book on Clojure - Packt Publishing

2014-12-21 Thread Tushar Gupta
I am Tushar Gupta, an Acquisition Editor at Packt Publishing. We specialise in publishing books, eBooks, video tutorials and articles for IT developers, administrators and users. We are currently planning to develop a book on *Clojure Data structures and Algorithms*. We are looking for a