Re: New books and new authors - and experience?
- From: "Carel-Jan Engel" <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:02:00 +0100 (CET)
> it seems to me that most authors are consultant. How much does it help to
> market yourself to have a book?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Freeman Robert - IL" <FREEMANR@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Melanie Caffrey '" <melanie_caffrey@xxxxxxxxx>;
> <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:23 PM
> Subject: RE: New books and new authors - and experience?
>
Of course this helps. Actually, this is one of the reasons that I do not
write books so far, but articles in magazines.
Some advantages are:
- Short 'Time to Market'. An article gets published within weeks, not
months, quarters or years. Writing about _facts_ is much easier this way
- Constant flow of visibility: Writing a book requires to 'bury' yourself
for a significant amount of time. The visibililty will last probably much
shorter.
- Keeping a social life. Of course deadlines are still in place, but
pretty much manageable. I'm writing articles (and columns) for two (Dutch)
magazines for 7 years now, and feel pretty comfortable with it. I've some
ideas for some books, but still don't know whether I should do it.
Regards, Carel-Jan
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