Recommending 3rd-parth books (was RE: using 3rd-party books)

[Darren Barefoot <Darren -dot- Barefoot -at- capeclear -dot- com>]

We had a similar discussion around our department recently, except that
instead of including a 3rd-party book, we wanted to recommend a particular
book as the best book to learn about the technologies our product used. As
our software is pretty cutting edge, there's only specifications and a few
books on the related technology. We wanted to advocate the best of the
bunch.

Ultimately, product management didn't want to give approval to a particular
book, for fear of offending other authors and publishers and because a
better book might be published the day after we ship. Has anyone else done
this sort of thing? Thanks. DB.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SM Rush [mailto:sellar -at- apptechsys -dot- com] 
> Sent: 18 September 2001 23:12
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: using 3rd-party books
> 
> 
> I think it's a great idea.  If you can get an ok from whoever 
> (publisher) and get a price break, go for it.
> 
> If you do, can you reference the enclosed book in your own 
> documentation (for example:  "to troubleshoot a socket 
> connection, refer to XXX for Dummies, Chapter 10")?  What 
> would be the drawbacks to that?


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