Millionaire authors and
top-selling Computer books
With real sales being carefully hidden by
publishers, we have to guess at the actual sales of computer books,
but a few Google searches reveals press releases about the
bestselling computer books and Oracle database books:
Scott Mueler
– Upgrading and repairing PC’s – Que publishing –
claims an astonishing 2,000,000 copies sold:
http://www.quepublishing.com/promotions/promotion.asp?promo=1669&rl=1
Scott Mueller, the
book is the best-selling PC hardware book of all time, with more
than two million copies sold.
Herb Schildt
– One of the world’s most prolific computer authors with
over 90 books in-print and more than 3 million copies sold.
David
Flannigan – Author
of “Java In A Nutshell” by O’Reilly, the publisher claims sales of
more than 700,000 copies.
Stuart
McClure - Claims that his hacking book has sold more
than a half-million copies:
http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072260815.html?id=yMIIbYVy
In 1999, he took
the lead in authoring Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets &
Solutions, the best-selling computer-security book ever, with over
500,000 copies sold to date.
Chris Date
- In its sixth edition, the landmark book Introduction to
Database Systems is said to have sold more than 300,000 copies
over the past decade.
Ben Forta -
Sams Teach Yourself Sql in 10 Minutes – 100,000 copies
sold
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/booklists/hot-25/-/269899
Ben Forta's
best-selling SQL tutorial. Previous editions of this best-selling
book have sold over 100,000 copies worldwide.
Ralph
Kimball - The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit
http://www.computers-internet.5file.com/R_549646-1.htm
Cowritten by Ralph
Kimball, the world's leading data warehousing authority, whose
previous books have sold more than 150,000 copies.
Bennett,
Simon Mcrobb, Steve Farmer, Ray
- Authors of Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design
using UML claims sales of over 20,000 copies:
http://www.tatamcgrawhill.com/catalog/newarrivals.asp
Top-selling Oracle
database Books
– Copies sold:
In the Oracle database market we see these
self-reported sales numbers. Oracle Press and O'Reilly lead
the pack and Oracle Press has a seal on their new
2005 Oracle books proclaiming that “10 years – Over 2.5 million
copies sold”. It appears that a single author, Kevin Loney, is
responsible for more than one-third of the total sales of Oracle
Press over the past decade:
Stephen
Feuerstein claims
that his O'Reilly book “Oracle PL/SQL Programming” has sold more than a
quarter-million copies:
http://www.stevenfeuerstein.com/index.htm
Author of "Oracle
PL/SQL Programming," which has sold about 250,000 copies
Rich Niemiec
– Author of Oracle9iPerformance Tuning Tips & Techniques
claims sales of more than 30,000 copies:
http://www.mcgraw-hill.com.tw/pro_en2003/osborne/catalog_pages_pdf/0072224738_cp.pdf
Scott Urman
– Oracle Press author of Oracle9i PL/SQL Programming claims sales of
140,000 copies:
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0072191473.html
Guaranteed
best-seller--previous editions of this book have sold over 140,000
copies
George Koch:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-007882396x-1
With more than
100,000 copies sold, Oracle8: The Complete Reference is the "must
have" book for all Oracle DBAs
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