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From: Peter Seibel <pe...@gigamonkeys.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:29:57 GMT
Local: Fri, Apr 8 2005 10:29 am
Subject: Many thanks
Thanks, I imagine, in large part to the great word of mouth c.l.l'ers
and the Yaboos of #lisp have given it, _Practical Common Lisp_[1] is selling like hotcakes. At the moment (they change every hour) its Amazon Sales Rank is 2,499 which makes it not only the #1 Lisp best seller but also #12 in the Languages & Tools category (the next level up), and #57 in Programming, and within striking distance of cracking the Top 100 Computer & Internet books. (Over night the rank reached 1,752 but I don't know where that put it in the various top seller lists.) I've heard (from fairly reliable sources) that the folks at O'Reilly only start paying attention to books that have a Amazon sales rank better than 5,000 so we're definitely in the territory to make them sorry about their "We Won't Even Look at a Lisp Book" policy if PCL continues to sell. So thanks for all the help you've given me, both while I was working on the book and in spreading the word. And if you want to keep helping, here are a few ideas, quoted from a squib I just added to the book's website: Like what you've read? Then help spread the word. Recommend this -Peter [1] <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/> -- Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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