[drupal-docs] New book about Drupal?

Charlie Lowe cel4145 at cyberdash.com
Sun Aug 14 19:08:16 UTC 2005


No doubt. Looks like they have focused on online distribution at the moment:

http://www.packtpub.com/article/where_to_buy_packt_books

However, if we get a book published and proceeds go to the Drupal 
Foundation, it's pretty easy to market it on drupal.org.

Djun Kim wrote:
> 
> On 14 Aug 2005, at 8:18 AM, Charlie Lowe wrote:
> 
>> Here's the name of the publisher that contacted me about a Drupal book 
>> that would include an overview of development concepts and case 
>> studies (Drupal recipes):
>>
>> David Barnes
>>
>> davidb at packtpub.com
>>
>> http://www.packtpub.com/index
> 
> 
>     David contacted me, too.    I have never seen a Packt book in any of my
> travels.   Judging by their website, they look like an interesting company.
> None of the bookstores I've talked to here in Vancouver, including
> national chains such as Chapters-Indigo, seem to have them listed in
> their catalogs.
> 
>     I would guess that they are still working on their distribution :)
> 
>     Djun
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> Charlie Lowe wrote:
>>
>>> A couple of weeks ago, I was contacted by a publisher who has already 
>>> been
>>> talking to people about a similar project. It could be good to work
>>> together with him; plus, books are much better projects when you already
>>> have a publisher. I don't have his contact information with me (I can 
>>> send
>>> it this weekend).
>>
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