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These are $5 for a reason.

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1rj2jq/book_haskell...

I got a similar request to write a book for Packt. They offered almost zero money upfront, and when asked could offer zero reasons as to why they thought there was a market for this book.

It really seemed their plan was "James takes almost all the risk and does almost all of the work but James does not get almost all the money."

I get an ~monthly email asking about producing d3 content for them. For what they're offering it really doesn't make any sense lock what I have time to write or make in a book only a few people will read.

They seem to exhibit the same behavior as online content-farms. Shame we don't have a real-life Panda update to squash subpar books.

I would suggest checking out the reviews on amazon before buying, even if its only 5$ :)

I dont have enough packt titles to evaluate their general quality, but at least I found their early solr books useful(it was also the only book on solr back then, so not much choice :)

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