[pydotorg-www] Request to add "Advanced Python Programming: 2nd edition" to Python Books.

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

On 13.04.2022 11:23, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 at 18:56, Pooja Yadav via pydotorg-www
> <pydotorg-www at python.org> wrote:
>> I’m Pooja, the Senior Marketing Coordinator at Packt. Packt is one of the leading tech book publishers based in the UK, having published more than 8000 books and video workshops.
>>
> 
> Packt is... prolific. There has been a bit of a history of them
> overloading the books pages, to the exclusion or dominance of other
> publishers. Right now, for instance, searching for "packt" in
> AdvancedBooks shows 249 results; each one has two links, and searching
> the raw page for "[[" (to find all the links) shows 517 results. I
> haven't done a full check, but these figures make it look like there
> might be circa two dozen non-Packt entries on that page, and ten times
> that number of Packt entries.
> 
> I'm concerned that the books pages are becoming nothing more than
> Packt listing pages. Thoughts?

I think we ought to move all Packt book entries to a separate
sub-page, e.g. AdvancedBooks/Packt, and point there from the
main page.

The wiki is not meant to be a SEO resource and dumping their
entire Python book catalog into the wiki not fulfilling the
purpose of the pages we have.

Given the number of books, it may even be better to simply
put a single link to their catalog on the page, rather than
list every single book.

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