We’re Number 1,742!
As I think is common among authors, I’m somewhat obsessive about checking my books’ sales rankings on amazon. Since OpenSolaris Bible started shipping last week I’ve been tracking its ranking closely, and have been quite pleased with its sales. This week, the ranking stayed below 5000, with a peak around 1,742:
Additionally, OpenSolaris Bible has been the #1 best-selling book in both the Solaris and Unix categories all week, the latter of which is significant considering that the Unix category seems to include such popular topics as Linux and Perl. OpenSolaris Bible also hit #6 in the Networking category, as shown in the above screenshot. I think that these numbers are indicative not only of interest in our book, but of enthusiasm and excitement about OpenSolaris in general.
I'm one of your readers: to be more specific, I purchased the book as soon as it was available here in Italy ^_^.
Great work, a masterpiece in my opinion.
I've been always a Linux/Debian guy, but in these days I'm building my knowledge on OpenSolaris. Sun and the Community did a great gift to all sysadmins in the world with the OpenSolaris project.
In time I'll become a power user, and your book is helping me a lot.
Let me say I have the same excitement I see in the OpenSolaris community members. Keep going, the knowledge of this great piece of technology is spreading.
I leave with this consideration: Microsoft sued Tom Tom for a patent infringement regarding FAT filesystem (!), and Sun has given (open-source) the community the ZFS filesystem... I'm doing my part to get my people aware of this...
Bye
Marco
Ceprano (FR) - Italy
Posted by Marco De Lellis on April 12, 2009 at 05:42 AM MDT #