Re: Interest in 9i New Features for Administrators Exam book?

Hi Pete,

Look I promise to buy your book under the following conditions:

1. It contains heaps of really nice, colour pictures.
2. The plot is not too simplistic and I don't guess who the baddy is by mid book.
3. The sex scenes are essential to the story line (really nice pictures at these points would be good)
4. It not be too scary so I can read it at night
5. You stick to your artistic principles when you sell the movie rights to Hollywood
6. I be considered for the lead role (dashing, heroic DBA saves the day)
7. It's cheap

HTH :) Richard

"Pete Sharman" <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in message news:ah05c4025lo_at_drn.newsguy.com...
> Folks
>
> < Long winded explanation >
>
> As some of you may recall, I wrote the Oracle8i Architecture and
Administration
> Exam Cram book for the Coriolis Group, which has since curled up its toes
(I'm
> sure that's not a reflection on my book, by the way!) Since then, a group
of us
> that wrote for Coriolis, lead by Mike Ault, have started putting together
a web
> site http://www.robonerd.com, where we are in the throes of loading some
of the
> 8i exam material now that the rights have reverted to the authors. As it
says
> on the web site, "At ROBO-Books International, Inc. our mission is to
provide
> quality computer and technical reference materials directly downloadable
to your
> desktop, laptop, notepad or PDA at the chapter, section or full text
level."
>
> I had started putting some thoughts together on another book for the 9i
New
> Features for Administrators Exam when Coriolis went under. I raised the
> possibility of putting this on the ROBO-Books site with Mike, and he is
very
> interested in getting it there, since there are very few books out there
that
> cover this particular exam.
>
> </ Long winded explanation >
>
> My question for you is: before I go to the effort of writing the book, is
there
> sufficient demand out there to make it worthwhile? It takes a lot of time
away
> from family life to do this, since it's all done after hours, and I don't
want
> to waste my time if it's not going to generate enough interest (and of
course,
> enough revenue for me!).
>
> Oh, and Mike, you don't need to answer. I already know your answer! ;)
>
> HTH. Additions and corrections welcome.
>
> Pete
>
> SELECT standard_disclaimer, witty_remark FROM company_requirements;
>
Received on Tue Jul 16 2002 - 06:40:29 CDT