Re: Recommending 3rd-parth books (was RE: using 3rd-party books)

Subject: Re: Recommending 3rd-parth books (was RE: using 3rd-party books)
From: Sandy Harris <sandy -at- storm -dot- ca>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 07:45:27 -0400

Darren Barefoot wrote:
>
> We had a similar discussion around our department recently, except that
> instead of including a 3rd-party book, we wanted to recommend a particular
> book ...
>
> Ultimately, product management didn't want to give approval to a particular
> book, for fear of offending other authors and publishers and because a
> better book might be published the day after we ship. Has anyone else done
> this sort of thing? ...

In most cases, product documentation is a substantial work of (we hope)
non-fiction. Any such work should include a bibliography, of course.

Mine is at:
http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.91/doc/biblio.html

I also refer both to books (via hyperlinks into the bibliography) and to
various web sites throughout my docs.

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