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That's because Packt, unlike O'Reilly titles, are the shovelware of the programming textbook market. They have a pretty sorry business model. Lots of copypasta-style content slapped up into a book, then sending free copies of the book in exchange for reviews.

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I wondered about that. I just looked at the table of contents, and there is far, far too much stuff in this book. Either it is 2000 pages long (it's not), or it is incredibly superficial.

They will take on literally anyone as an author. Authorship gets you kudos in the increasingly large segment of programmer influencers.

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