[WoodenChair]

Unfortunately it's true. They mass-recruit authors who want to be "published" via solicitation emails and then provide them limited support (as well as a limited or non-existent advance).

That doesn't mean there are no good Packt books. There are. It just means the average of quality will be lower than some other more picky publishers.

I feel bad for the good authors who get lumped together with the bad authors by virtue of their publisher. And I feel bad for the potentially good authors who just didn't get enough support in the writing process.

Don't judge a book by its cover or its publisher, but you may want to be a little more skeptical when Packt is the publisher on average.

[diegoveralli]

The saddest part is how a lot of technical work goes to waste, because Packt won't give authors even the bare minimum technical review and copy-editing support.

I started reading "Mastering Linux Device Driver Development" a while ago but I found it to be almost unreadable, and I gave up after a couple of chapters. On top of the at times incomprehensible grammar, I found a few too many errata in the form of "can" vs "cannot", "only by" instead of "by only", etc... that change the meaning of the text significantly. It was too much work to pause every time I found the text confusing, to figure out what the author really meant.