For just a second, let us Perl programmers think like business men.
No thanks. I mean, you can do that if you want, but I'm not.
Maybe the real issue you're running into is Perl culture. As a rule, Perl culture values two things: work, and play -- i.e., getting stuff done, and having fun. Things that are at odds with both of those two values (i.e., activities that neither get anything useful done nor are fun) are *widely* valued in the business community (Yay, more meetings!), but Perl culture tends to reject such thinking. A book devoted to e-commerce with Perl wouldn't sell, because Perl programmers wouldn't consider it any more useful (for getting things done, such as e-commerce work) than any *other* mod_perl book (no, the problem domain for ecommerce is *not* specially atypical), and a book on ecommerce frankly sounds like about as much fun as a root canal. Neither particularly useful nor much fun means most Perl programmers won't buy it.
Perl programmers are the people who buy the most Perl books, so if they're not going to buy it, it's gonna flop, unless it's part of an extant highly-successful series (e.g., Perl for Dummies probably sells pretty well to people with no prior Perl experience because it's riding on the success of prior books starting with DOS for Dummies).
In reply to Re: The Black Art of Perl Programming?
by jonadab
in thread The Black Art of Perl Programming?
by Anonymous Monk
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