# Interesting book sales news

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interesting-book-sales-news/52877>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 8, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interesting-book-sales-news/52877 "2005-12-08T05:18:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![pat.eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pat.eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pat.eyler)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interesting-book-sales-news/52877/1 "2005-12-08T05:18:19Z")

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> **[Ruby Book Sales Surpass Python - O'Reilly Radar](http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby-book-sales-surpass-python.html)**
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> I was just looking at our BookScan data mart to update a reporter on Java vs. C# adoption. (The answer to his query: in the last twelve weeks, Java book sales are off 4% vs. the same period last year, while C# book sales are up 16%.) While I was...

Ruby books are up over 1500% over last year, while Python books  
are up 20% (and Perl is down 3%).

Several interesting comments as well.