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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 11:17:32 -0600
From: Zachary DeAquila <zachary@zachs.place.org>
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><p>
>Sun's official series of Java books is in the production pipeline at
>Addison-Wesley.
><p>
>O'Reilly Associates is working on its own series of Java books in
>cooperation with Sun.
><p>
>***Is there anything out on paper now?***

Yes!  Browing the local Bookstop/Barnes & Noble/Borders came up with 3 books:
1 called 'Java in 60 minutes' that looked like a pretty strict syntactic description
1 from SamsNet called just 'Java' (I think)
1 by Tim Ritchey called 'Java!' that included a CD-ROM

Prices were approx. $20 / $25 / $35 respectively.

I bought the 3rd one.
Paper leadtimes being what they are, the CD-ROM only has alpha stuff, though it mentions
that the beta version might be out by the time you read it and suggests java.sun.com as a
place to get more recent information.  Other than that, it's pretty good, even to 
pointing out that 'well, it's pointless for me to spam you with pages and pages of API 
descs because 1) it would quadruple the size of the book and 20 they're still changing 
and you can get that info online at ...etc'

 --Zachary