I have to disagree that the p2p site had no direct revenue. I purchased several Wrox books because I knew there was an EMAIL discussion list I could turn to for help. I do not have the time or interest in using a web based forum. The excusses of spam and instability are just that. Those problems simply did not exist in any fasion that affected the operation of the email list. Obviously Wiley has screwed up here by not involving the community in any of this but is not ready to admit it.
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Originally posted by David Long
I don't know if anyone here remembers me, but I was one of the original team behind P2P at Wrox (before the liquidation and subsequent takeover by Wiley). I certainly recognise some names including David Cameron and Hal Levy from the old P2P site, though. Please note that I'm now just a user of these forums like the rest of you, I have nothing to do with the Wrox name in a business capacity any more.
I've been following this thread with interest, I agree with everything the original P2P members have said, but haven't felt the need to reply until I read this:
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Originally posted by JSample
Having said that, the front-end web server was indeed unstable and required frequent rebooting (maybe once every couple of weeks; nowhere near daily). This was due to the site's popularity and the fact that the code behind it did not scale and was never designed to handle the number of users that were eventually hitting the site. The version of the P2P website that everyone here was familiar with had been running the same codebase for over two years, and desperately needed a rewrite in order to cope with the ten-fold increase in traffic the site had experienced during those two years. Unfortunately, due to internal pressures, work on revamping P2P was never sanctioned - the site was actually a loss-leader for Wrox, costing us time and bandwidth but producing no direct revenue.
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