Article:		The XML Book Business
Subject:		Books vs. Mailing list archives
Date:		2003-11-20 17:03:43
From:		Shunhui Zhu
I think this is in general true: when you want to learn something, read a book; when you want to use it, search the mail archives. Most financially viable books (meaning enough sales) are for beginners. Once one goes beyond the basics, one at most needs something like a cookbook (the best: O'reilly's Perl Cookbook), mail archives are much more useful. I see the main special problem with XML's book trouble is that the basics are very simple, and most people only need the basics.

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