On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 08:21, Dave Thomas wrote: <snip> > > The issue isn't folks copying, or who did what when. > > For me, the issue is an industry that I value (from well before I did > publishing myself) slowly dying through lack of innovation. When > companies stop innovating, as an industry we stop growing. > > My blog post came from a growing sense of frustration with an > industry that seems to have lost its way. I don't want to see > publishing houses I've grown up with going away. As you have proved yourself, there _is_ innovation in the publishing industry. Established publishing houses withering away due to a lack of foresight and innovation is sad but inevitable. Companies grow old and die, just like people do. If there are no new companies to replace them, then there is a problem... Is there any solid information on the reading habits of software developers and managers? Do people read more or less now than ten years ago? Reading habits change, so it would be expected that if people read more on the Web, they read fewer books. On the other hand, for me personally the Web has given me access to a wider selection of books. I read more books now than ever before. I have also become much more aware of the authors, and the publishing houses. The same thing goes for at least some of my friends who also are developers, and probably for many, many more people. /Henrik -- http://kallokain.blogspot.com/ - Blogging from the trenches of software development http://www.henrikmartensson.org/ - Reflections on software development http://testunitxml.rubyforge.org/ - The Test::Unit::XML Home Page http://declan.rubyforge.org/ - The Declan Home Page