While the rest of the world scrambles to book plane tickets and hotel rooms to exotic locations to ring in New Year’s 2000, some computer book publishers are predicting that the computer meltdown some fear ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
For a long time, publishers seemed to treat the computer books category as a cash cow to finance less successful areas of their business. As a short-term strategy this worked, but at the expense of ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Richard Cumyn, a Kingston, Ontario-based author, has become an online fiction writer, and he owes his new career to a Nova Scotia freenet and the serendipitous ways of the World Wide Web. Cumyn, whose first ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
The magic is over. The computer business will never again be as exciting as it was in the heady days of the late 1990s. So goes the conventional wisdom, and, for a change, the conventional ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Check out any specialized computer bookseller and you’ll find an ample selection – often an entire aisle – of nothing but Java books. Big ones, small ones, yellow ones, blue ones. Hardcover and softcover. Paper ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
First, some history, because the more things change the more they stay the same.On August 24, 1995, computer users were introduced to the most heavily hyped software product the world had seen. Under a big ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Like Microsoft’s Windows or Apple's Macintosh, Linux is an operating system for personal computers. Unlike its corporate competitors, however, Linux is "freeware," a software program developed in a non-profit environment and distributed free over the ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Canadian publishers remain as tentative about CD-ROMs as they are about the Internet, and with equally good reason. Not only are bookstore sales slow, but with the huge degree of interest in the World Wide ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Hard to believe, but true: The World Wide Web is getting old. Though still a precocious seven-year-old, one of the most popular services on the Internet is beginning to show its age. Created in 1992 as ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
If passion for selling computer books eludes you, Chris Kapp may be the one to change your mind. For the past few months the West Coast sales rep for ITP Nelson has been presenting to ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
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