Hey Rodman,

I was talking to some editors (I think called procurement editors?) a few years ago and they told me that major publishers don't like to put out a technical book unless they're pretty sure it'll sell 50,000 copies or more and that the vast majority of technical books don't make much money for the publishers. Does that sound about right to you?


>If the market were better publishers would print more books. They are much better at market analysis than I am. My guess is that VFP does not justify the resources it takes to get a book to market. Also, how come many of the people here and on the VFP conference circuit are not writing books for a major publisher ? If the market is so healthy they could probably convice a publisher to put out a book.