The BOF of people concerned with computer books

Last evening I joined a discussion among people involved in computer books in several publishers. It's much more like the brown-bag meeting or the BOF. Many sales people including the book store clerk also participated. It was very enlightening to exchange views from variety of angles.

In the computer books industory in Japan, we hadn't had a chance to talk about the way of buisiness with other publishers, at least in the editing field. I think we can do a lot of things than to keep our work secret as ancient (maybe just one or two decades ago) publishers used to do. I felt that people took part in the BOF yesterday have the same mind.