From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9D3BC0A for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 02:25:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp [130.54.16.1]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4O0P4FD025625 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 02:25:06 +0200 Received: from localhost (orion [130.54.16.5]) by kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l4O0Ox8h014534; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:25:00 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:25:00 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20070524.092500.104035982.garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> To: jon@ffconsultancy.com Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Book sales From: Jacques Garrigue In-Reply-To: <200705230054.11816.jon@ffconsultancy.com> References: <200705230054.11816.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4654DB60.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; o'reilly:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 breakdown:98 radar:98 10.:98 caml-list:01 short:01 archives:02 garrigue:03 garrigue:03 programming:03 oreilly:03 jacques:03 jacques:03 From: Jon Harrop > > Tim O'Reilly recently published an article about book sales and, in > particular, gave a breakdown of units sold per programming language: > > http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_10.html > > As the author and publisher of a book on OCaml, this naturally caught my eye. > So I spent some time dissecting the results and the conclusions were quite > interesting: > > http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2007/05/ocaml-revolution.html > > Most notably, we are outselling APress in terms of units sold. Also, > the OCaml community is desperately short of cheap introductory books. I think you're right on introductory books. At least in English. There are several books on ocaml in French, there are already two (cheap and good) books in Japanese, so what's wrong with English language publishers? I would suppose there are some people ready to write, but is it so much more difficult to get published? Jacques Garrigue