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Publisher: Emereo Pty Ltd Salesrank: 78512 Released: 2008-11-04
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The Editor Should Be SHOT! 
I was hopeful this would be a good read and informative yet I find that due to poor editing this book was less than stellar. Actually it was one of the worst efforts in writing I have ever read.
Apparently the rush to get it published and out to the world put the editing out to lunch.
The person who wrote and/or compiled this data was a moron when it comes to writing coherent sentences/paragraphs. It did not flow nor did a lot of the subject matter have clarity.
This book was a waste of money, time, and effort. Don’t buy it, wait till they publish something worthwhile and get that one.
Oh yea, use some spell check why don’t ya!
Poorly Written and Uninformative 
This book advertises itself as well-written; yet it is the sloppiest writing I’ve experienced this side of a 7th grade book report. There are grammatical errors and misspelled words on nearly every page, and many of the technically correct sentences are awkward at best. I suspect that this book was written by the cloud. Or at least by someone for whom English is not a native language. One would think that editing would have caught much of this, but apparently that was outside of the budget as well.
As an example, a paragraph on p.135 ends with the sentence, “So issue of server failure becomes more pressing in the cloud environment as there is more accountability once information has left an internal server environment for corporations.” I don’t even know where to begin.
Most importantly, though, is the lack of solid evidence that one encounters after wading through the poor writing. This book is filled with vague statements and cliches, like “There is(sic) going to be bumps in the road, no doubt about that.” (p. 84) I do not expect a book about a relatively new technology to have years of data behind it. But I do expect a technical book to make some kind of effort to quantify its claims.
You would save time, money, and frustration and learn more about cloud computing simply by reading online resources from the last 2 years.
Don’t buy this book! 
I bought this book because of the description provided by Amazon — it looked like a concatenation of favorable reviews. Well, the description is from the back cover and probably is the only well-written part of the book. The book itself reads as if it were written by a college freshman padding thin research with extraneous, authoritative-sounding phraseology. It’s just plain irritating to read. Suspiciously, there is no author, and the bibliography contains only web articles. My guess is that this book was churned out overseas and meant to be sold on-line only. Anyone leafing through it at a store would not buy it.
Overall, a good introduction to the subject.. 
An alternative title of “The Encyclopaedia of Cloud Computing” is offered up by the authors in the synopsis. More realistically however given the relative newness and the scope of the subject matter this book introduces the reader to some of the basic terms, considerations and the current major players of this burgeoning field. Whilst the tone of the authors is clearly that of advocates of this new technological “revolution” it is tempered with a discussion of the possible drawbacks and appropriate application. Whilst initially an easy read, unfortunately in the later chapters of the book in particular the services of a good proof-reader would be beneficial.
Ultimately however, the best reference on this fledgling topic is The Internet itself but this book is a good starting point.