Re: mod_perl marketing

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Geoffrey Young wrote:

>
>I feel I need to interject here.  _all_ of the points you raise to this
>point are well covered in the mod_perl developer's cookbook, which has been
>available since  02/2001.  in fact, that's why we wrote it - both to address
>many of the things the mod_perl community had learned since the eagle book
>was written, as well as take the "access to the C API in Perl" road.  we
>hardly even mention Registry or CGI (but we do mention how to subclass
>RegistryNG :) and that was very, very on purpose.
>
>the unfortunate situation is that the cookbook suffers from lack of exposure
>(and sales, for that matter) - you obviously understand mod_perl and are
>participating on the list, yet you still didn't know that your issues are
>(and were) well covered with available documentation.
>  
>
Really? It hasn't sold well? I've used it a lot -- my copy is a bit beat up.

Well, from one satisfied reader, here's a big "Thank You!" to Geoffrey, 
Paul Lindner, and Randy Kobes for writing that book!

Don't you mean 02/2002? My copy says first printing January 2002. Also, 
maybe the publisher (SAMS) hasn't given you the support you deserve.

On the marketing front, doesn't Amazon use mod_perl, at least partially? 
Maybe you could get some mention or a logo on their site, ya know, as a 
way to support the community? Maybe some Easter egg that pops up if you 
do a specific search, i.e. something that engineers would have fun 
passing around?

Take care,

Kurt Hansen

P.S. I also have the Eagle book and Practical mod_perl and am very 
grateful for those as well! Especially recently during a move to 
Apache2/mod_perl2

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