RE: Internet Books

Adam C. Engst (ace@tidbits.com)
Fri, 30 Dec 1994 18:02:55 -0800

>I'm wondering about the wisdom of all these books including URLs in
>them. An interesting study would be one that examined the lifetime of
>the URL. I am not entused about books that rely on URL after URL. I
>have seen many published in Internet World magazine that are not
>functioning by the time that monthly magazine comes out. I guess I also
>see a book or URLs as being a relatively easy sell. Am I too cyncical?

Of course, if you're going to do this, it makes sense to do as I did in the
second edition of Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh and make sure that I
controlled the FTP site that contained all the files. I still lose out when
a version changes, but I don't have to worry about as many other problems
(and I solved the version issue in part using Anarchie bookmarks pointing
at generically named files with a Web page to inform users of updates).

http://www.tidbits.com/tidbits/

cheers ... -Adam

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