Baron wrote a blog post about his experiences writing this book. Just in case you were wondering how much work it takes to write a book like this.
Being an author gives you a lot of appreciation for other authors, and helps you understand how much a book is worth.
Now that the book has gone to the printing press, we can post final versions of our sample content. You can download unrestricted PDFs of the foreword, table of contents, chapter 4 (Query Performance Optimization), and the index from the Downloads page. Enjoy!
Amazon.com Sales Rank #3,868 in Books.
And that’s before it’s even available!
This is sales rank in all books. Not technical books, not MySQL books. All books.
Unbelievable.
As of Friday, June 6th, the book has gone to press. The in-stock date is June 19th, 2008.
I’ve asked for the PDF of the final book as it went to press, and will extract and update the sample material when I get it. The figures were revised until literally the last few hours. (Note to prospective authors: consider figures just like text; make sure you have a professional helping with them along the way, just as you do with the text.)
The publisher has promised that they’ll have the books at the upcoming Velocity conference, so you will be able to physically buy one there. Stop in and see Peter; he is speaking at that conference, too.
We’ve launched the official website for the new High Performance MySQL book — that is, the second edition. The second edition is the long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s groundbreaking work by Jeremy Zawodny and Derek J. Balling. We’ve had some troubles with the domain that was registered for the first edition, so we’ve registered a similar domain and will set up a redirect if the original domain becomes available again.
What can you expect to find here?
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A note on comments and trackbacks: because we don’t have a lot of time to spend on this website, we don’t want to enable comments and trackbacks. They’d just be abused by spammers.
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Errata are available through the O'Reilly catalog page for the book.
