As one of the early reviewers of the manuscript, I always had high hopes for this work.
I now have the pdf from lulu; do not have time now to dive deeply, but will comment that it seems, to me at least, well worth owning. Jack On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > Okay, it's DONE. Here's the Lulu link, ready to go: > > http://www.lulu.com/shop/jack-krupansky/solr-4x-deep-dive-early-access-release-1/ebook/product-21079719.html > > (Or, go to Lulu.com and just search for "Solr" - It's the only hit so far.) > > Price is $9.99 for now (I get $8.10 of that, BTW, in case you're wondering > how Lulu works - minus $0.90 (10%) "base price" to host the file, > bandwidth, credit card processing, etc., and minus another $0.90 (10%) for > Lulu's "share, a total of 19% to Lulu.) > > I'll see how the response is over the next two weeks and maybe adjust the > price. I almost went with $14.99 or even $19.99, but I decided this was a > decent introductory special. I mean, if it was complete, I might sell the > e-book for $25 or $29.99 or so. > > This pricing and distribution is all an experiment and subject to change at > any time. > > Thanks for all the feedback! > > Seriously, if you want to wait two weeks or a month for cleanup, go right > ahead. I thought of delaying so that "everything looks right", but I decided > that some us us just want the facts and the "finish" is not as important. > I'll try to cater to both. > > I'll spend another week or so on cleanup, and then decide whether to > intensify "finish" work, or focus on adding more content, like highlighting, > distributed search, DIH, core and collection management, or maybe even > Spatial. > > Here are the topics that are NOT in the current early-access edition: > > - SolrCloud > - Traditional Distributed Solr - shards, master/slave, replication > - Data Import Handler (DIH) > - Core management > - Collection management > - Admin UI > - Admin API > - Luke > - CheckIndex > - Spatial and Geospatial search > - Highlighting > - Query elevation > - Autocomplete deep dive > - SolrJ API > - UI example > - Application layer example > - Terms Component > - Term vectors component > - Javabin format > - Deeper coverage of DocValues (mentioned in Faceting) > > All of those are candidates for work over in the coming months. > > Here are aspects that are NOT under consideration and beyond the current > anticipated scope of the book, for now: > > - Cookbook approach to Solr > - Deployment, such as configuring Tomcat > - Tuning, estimation, performance optimization > - Troubleshooting > - Tips > - Security > - Access control > - Document-level access control > - Relevance Tuning > - Data Modeling > - How to develop custom plugin code > - Lucene API itself > - Diagrams - sorry, I'm a text guy - but contributions are welcome > - Details of Lucene index format > - Details of Lucene document scoring and relevancy > - Non-Java client APIs > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Jack Krupansky > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:04 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: The book: Solr 4.x Deep Dive - Early Access Release #1 > > > I’m expecting to self-publish the first Early Access Release for my book, > Solr 4.x Deep Dive, on lulu.com sometime today. It is still far from > finished and needs lots of work and missing a lot of important areas > (SolrCloud and distributed Solr in general, DIH, highlighting, core and > collection API, admin API and UI, query elevation, etc.), but I think there > is a critical mass of useful material that is a decent foundation to build > the rest of the book on. For those who participated in the early chapter > review process for the book’s predecessor (Lucene and Solr: The Definitive > Guide), most of those review chapters (at least the ones authored by me) are > included, plus a bunch more, especially chapters on indexing data, update > processors, and faceting. The new book is Solr-only. Alas, I have not > incorporated most of the reviewer feedback yet as I have been focused on > writing for the indexing and faceting chapters for the past two months. > > It will be e-book (PDF) only for the time being. Don’t even think about > printing it yourself – over 1,100 pages, and counting! Currently a 5MB > download. > > I still haven’t settled on pricing. For early access, the intent is that > people will want to check back every couple weeks or month or two, more like > a subscription. My current thought is to treat it as if it were a $60 to $80 > paper book bought once per year, but on a monthly subscription, say $5 to $8 > per download. My expectation is to update roughly every two weeks, or at > least monthly, as new material is added, issues resolved, and new Solr > releases. In the early going, I’ll probably update the PDF on lulu every > week. > > Given this rough model, what price point has the most appeal: $2.99 (yeah, > who doesn’t want it, but little incentive for me!), $4.99 (seems reasonable, > but incentive for me is still low although marginally acceptable), $7.99 > (starting to get steep for an EA multi-download), $9.99 (better incentive > for me, but will people pay it?). Thoughts? > > None of this is cast in stone. My current thought is to publish this initial > release at $4.99 or $7.99, and then set a revised price for the second or > third release. > > If I hear nothing, I’ll go ahead with $7.99, although I might go with $4.99. > > Thanks in advance for any feedback! > > -- Jack Krupansky
