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Sunday, January 21. 2007Has O'Reilly Gone Crazy?
Sometimes the things you'll find on a bookshelves of your local book store can be quite unusual and downright weird. Consider the following super-hero themed series of books on Windows products by O'Reilly.
 
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Yes, and it looks especially funny if you compare this Windows-user oriented series of books to their Linux / FOSS user oriented book covers, like the one here:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/0596008260_lrg.jpg Talk about knowing your market 
I think this is brilliant. Aside from the obvious campiness and fun, they set themselves apart from other technical texts that appear to the average reader intimidating and complex.
I suppose it would be popular amongst 10 year olds looking for comic books
I guess the non super-hero books are for 'professionals'. It would be rather difficult to be consulting one of these 'action books' as reference material during work or school time and not have people/boss/management think "What the hell? Is he reading comics during work/class
I wonder if the superheros have names?
The Boy XP! Captain Access! Excella! Pow! Zam! (yeah, I watched too much of the old Adam West Batman shows...)
Poetic that they are immediately followed by an "Annoyances" series of books in the lower right of the picture. "Excel Annoyances", "Word Annoyances", ...
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