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In article <6222@rosie.NeXT.COM> Conrad_Geiger@next.com writes:
>News
 
> 
>Contact:   Allan M. Wylde, Publisher
>   TELOS, The Electronic Library of Science
....
>Initial buyer reactions to this important publication:
> 
>Wonderful! Can't put it down!
> 
>..I only wish I had gotten this book six months ago, as it would
>have saved me weeks, if not months, of ramp-up time.
> 
>..EXACTLY what I NEED for my research!
> 

Quantum Books strongly objects to the above post, and asks whether
it ought not to be considered an inappropriate use of this newsgroup.
 
Quantum Books has been taken to task in the past over postings to 
misc.books.technical which have been construed as overly commercial; but 
nothing we have ever done can compare to this post for blatant hype.
 
Notwithstanding the fact that Quantum Books posted a simple, informative 
announcement of the new NeXTSTEP book some weeks ago already (Dec. 18), 
this post was filled with over two pages of text devoted to vacuous and 
redundant blurbs about the book and its authors, hyping of the publisher's 
"imprint", and full-blown soliciting of orders.  This amounts to what we 
perceive as a flagrant disregard of the norms which have been 
established for this newsgroup, and we feel particularly bound to point 
this out.
 
As might be of some interest to readers of this group, what makes this 
posting further unwelcome is its broadcasting of a direct betrayal by a 
publisher of its relationship with retail booksellers.  We support 
Springer-Verlag by stocking their books, and they in turn pull the rug 
out from under us by soliciting orders directly.  We do not believe 
their legitimate means of maintaining marketing and editorial presence 
should include abusing Net News in this way.
 
-Kevin Irlen
 
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