Feast or famine! - Anyone read or dealt with Wrox Press?

[Alexander Staubo]

In article <9VtB3.14$114.1985 at news.clarkson.edu>, bkc at Murkworks.com 
says...
> Not quite related but the Wrox folks seem interested in a Python book. Has
> anyone actually read a Wrox press book? Whats your opinion? Has anyone dealt
> with them as a publisher?

I like 'em.

Their books are generally excellent. Although it's difficult not to 
speak broadly here, I personally put them on par with Addison-Wesley and 
O'Reilly (as opposed to, say, Que or Microsoft Press or any of the other 
"Learn Gork in 21 Days!" houses, whose books I would really hesitate to 
buy) in terms of respectability. I have several (they have one of the 
best books on practical XML application, _XML Applications_), and they 
fulfill their promise.

If anything I find their books to have a much better signal-to-fluff 
ratio than other books. And their typography is really compact; when you 
buy a 700-page tome, you do get 700 pages' worth -- not just 300 pages 
with really wide margins and big lettering.

(Of course, I don't have their Visual C++ or Visual Basic books. They 
could be vastly different. They do have a lot of Microsoft-oriented 
books, perhaps-not-surprisingly.)
 
> --
> Brad Clements,
> bkc at murkworks.com

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