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- From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
- Subject: Re: The Online BookStore Announcement: The Internet Companion
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:19:08 GMT
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- tracy@cs.utexas.edu (Tracy LaQuey Parker) writes:
-
- >Well, the initial reviews have been GREAT, but "The Internet Companion"
- >has been on the Barnes and Noble "Top Ten" computer books list for 2 weeks
- >now. (It came out November 9th.)
-
- Yes ... Tracy's book is great especially for people without any idea of
- what the Internet is ... Even though it is not as comprehensive as
- Ed Krol's _The Whole Internet_, _The Internet Companion_ has enough
- material for newbies to grasp on what the Internet is, how it works and
- what they can do with the Internet utilities and resources ...
-
- >>I speak as an author of over a dozen books. A-W's marketing dept. is
- >>one of the best, IMHO, and one of the hardest-working.
-
- >Boy, WHEW!!!, am I glad to hear that! :-) :-) :-)
-
- Yes and No ... A-W has produced two books on the Internet within a
- short period of time ... The other one is Internet System Handbook
- by Daniel Lynch and Marshall Rose ... That one is far more technical
- in nature than any other books in this field ... However, I think
- the marketing dept of A-W should do some promotion on the netnews ...
-
- --
- Samuel Ko (kko@sfu.ca)
- Maintaining " A Concise Guide to Unix Books " that is posted regularly
- here and in unix newsgroups ...
-
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