sutton036

The recent news that Apple are selling around 18 million of their ARM-based iPads per year reminded us of our article Will Intel lose the computer market to ARM in 2012? from January. Following their success, there are now a growing number of competitors itching to release ARM-based tablet PCs of their own, like Marvell's $99 Moby tablet . Compare just those iPad sales to the 35 million netbooks of all brands sold in 2009 and the predicted 36 million netbooks to be sold in 2010 and it looks as though Intel may at least lose the mobile market to ARM in 2012.

Mike Hendrickson has been busy updating O'Reilly's analysis of the state of the computer book market by programming language. That means it is time for us to reiterate how authors of decent books can earn far more for their work by cutting out the middlemen including trade publishers like O'Reilly. Traditional book publishers are a dying breed. Aside from e-books, they have been driven out by an increasing number of so-called "self-published" books. In the context of software development, this is particularly common around non-mainstream subjects and includes titles such as OCaml for Scientists and Programming in Scala . O'Reilly's analysis excluded all such books even though they are far more profitable for authors. In order to make a case for self-publishing it is necessary to present some information about a variety of existing books: OCaml for Scientists was written and self-published in 2005 and is sold for £85 through the publisher's website....