On Sep 30, 11:20 pm, Daniel Pitts <googlegrou...@coloraura.com> wrote:
After the recent accusations from Twisted that I'm conning innocent
newbies into spending money, I've decided that I really *should* be
getting a cut for all the referring I do. I'm starting a bibliography
page of books that I refer to often here. I would like the cljp
community to provide their feedback on both this practice, and on the
design/content of the page itself.
Right now I only have two books: Refactoring, Fowler and Java
Concurrency In Practice, Goetz. I do plan on adding more books, and
improving on the explanation of the books. If anyone has a "must
read" book they'd like to recommend to me, let me know and I'll see
about acquiring it.
For those who are interested the site ishttp://books.virtualinfinity.net/
For those this offends, feel free to simply not click on the link.
I'd suggest prominent links to Sun's Javadoc and Java Tutorial pages
and a few other free materials (someone mentioned Thinking in Java?)
-- this may be appreciated by people of limited means, non-local
people who even if they have the money can't actually buy the books
from wherever they are anyway, people with no credit card who
therefore can't order things over the 'net, etc., and those people
wouldn't generate revenue anyway. Some people who might have might
check out the freebies and end up satisfied by one of these enough not
to end up buying anything, but in that case the money you missed out
on *would* have been effectively ripping someone off, which isn't very
nice.
The use of the word "books" in the link is helpful; when the URL
appears people will probably be expecting pay books rather than free
online articles and information, and if they *do* encounter some links
to the latter they'll be pleasantly surprised. This is far preferable
for all concerned to them arriving expecting free information and
running into some sort of a paywall and being angry and/or
disappointed.
subdomain. While I often disagree with your method of argument,