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On 09/08/2022 05:12, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
>news:tcs2mr$1o0u$1@gioia.aioe.org...
>...
>> P.S. Nobody writes Ada books these days because they do not sell.
>
>Do *any* programming books really sell? If so, why? :-)
>
>There are plenty of free, on-line resources for pretty much any programming 
>language. Why pay for something you can get free?

FWIW, I may be 'old school', but I buy loads of programming books. That
 obviously doesn't qualify me to answer the question of whether "*any*
 programming books really sell", but the main reasons I like books are that
 they tend to be more constrained and cohesive than jumping around websites
 (at least, the decent ones are :-)). Also for those times when I want to
 flick back and forth between sections quickly, when I don't want to be
 staring at a screen and so on. One particular reason is that, unless I've
 actually got a block of free time to be experimenting with stuff, using a
 Web browser presents multiple, frustrating distractions, and it's often the
 case that an example of something you might want to do has no explanation
 about how it works (books, especially Ada As A Second Language, if I
 remember correctly, are generally fairly good at that bit), so that leads
 to more searching, more jumping about webpages and, nowadays, a helluva lot
 of stale and misleading information. 

So, basically, that's why I pay for books. 


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Best Regards