brucecohen at qwest.net said:
> I wonder if we don't need to narrow the initial pitch a little. 

Probably. But then, you risk that the publisher keeps you to it :-). 

> Just out of curiousity, what was the topic you were thinking of
> writing about? 

I wanted to put Jini/JavaSpaces in context of Linda and Lifestreams. E.g. use 
the former as a sort of 'low level language' to implement the latter (one of 
the biggest problems Jini has is that it is an assembly-level language w.r.t. 
distributed computing). I must say that I haven't really tried *hard* to get a 
publisher, but I also did notice that more people were walking around with 
great book plans, and all that actually lands on the shelves is the spec, 
rehashed.

> Yes, it would be.  The thing I think Squeak is missing is something
> closer to a critical mass of at least semi-knowledgeable and
> interested users.  Right now the population of Squeakers is mostly  a
> little too introverted and cultish (I'm including myself!) to attract
> the larger audience we need for Squeak to make a difference to anyone
> besides ourselves.

Yeah, cool, ain't it? ;-)

But that's why you want to aim at a publisher like O'Reilly, who really tries 
to push your book. Not one like the others who pay you, put a single copy on 
lots of store shelves, and then forget they ever published the thing. Are 
there other publishers like that?



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