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Done: Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5

scrottie on 2005-01-06T08:39:09

Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5 is done and on shelves. And people are buying it. But very few. It had one review on Amazon and it was favorable. Looking at my sales rank among Perl books it was 100 today - exactly behind Matt Wright's book on CGI. Kill me now. I know I'm basically a jerk, but what exactly have I done to deserve this?

Look at the bright side

zatoichi on 2005-01-06T14:12:39

Considering the blurb on Amazon says: January 14, 2005 as the publish date, you are ahead of the game! :-)

Re:Look at the bright side

scrottie on 2005-01-07T17:16:31

The ranking is based on daily sales.

Re:Look at the bright side

zatoichi on 2005-01-07T17:46:30

Right. So if the book isn't supposed to be out until mid-January, then anything accrued now is a benny. :-)

Re:Look at the bright side

scrottie on 2005-01-07T17:56:06

Amazon got copies in stock two weeks ago. The release date is meaningless.

oh? I can see how out of touch I've been

WebDragon on 2005-01-07T06:44:03

Time to use that 'zon gift certificate methinks...