Don Xml's Grok This

[via Scoble, via Christopher Hawkins] – Seems like Joel Spolsky has very little respect for independent consultants (like me) and thinks that we are not a “startup” or an entrepreneur.  There are lots of reasons why people would like to see indies eliminated from the marketplace (mostly because they either want to limit ...

Maybe I’m a bit naïve about the whole book publishing industry, but I can’t really figure out why most tech author use major publishing houses to release their books.  I have only work on one book (as a tech reviewer for Kurt Cagle’s SVG Programming book) and have been approached a bunch of times to work on others, but ...