O’Reilly Radar recently published some data regarding the State of the Computer Book Market, Part 2 in the US. O’Reilly believes that the book sales are a good indicator of where the industry is focusing on. There is also a Part 1 and Part 3 of this analysis.
In Part 2, O’Reilly analyzes the market in categories, namely, Systems and Programming, Web Design and Development, Digital Media Applications, and some other dimensions. I am mostly interested in the Systems and Programming area. I am not going to copy the whole analysis but couple things cought my attention more than others. According to the data, there is increasing sales for Software Engineering books which O’Reilly attributes to the tendency of the industry to “build right and to scale”. Moreover, Software Project Management book sales were also rising and the “Agile” meme is replacing the “Extreme” meme. Finally, if this data is really a reflection of the industry, we are far from secure applications because the security books are not showing any increase. Industry either have concepts nailed down or they think they nailed down or even worse they don’t care about security and secure applications.
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