Electronic-data-interchange Books

Had Martin Plonus spent more time proofing his text he would not have wasted so much of mine. My class found errors in the abbreviated derivations, examples, homework problems, and even one conceptual error. This book has far too many errors to be of much quantitative use. I would wait for a corrected edition to become available or simply use another text.

I have a BS in EE, pursuing a teaching degree in Physics. This text is being used for a Physics undergrad course in Electronics. It has several typographical errors in both the text and end of chapter problems in the first two chapters. In addition, the explanations are dense and unhelpful, and the derivations skip steps without explanation. This text should not be used; there must be several better written texts, even if you need to delve into those meant strictly for Electrical Engineering coursework.

First of all, this book is overpriced. 45 dollars for 155 pages of actual book text (minus the index, etc) is ridiculous. Yes, I saw that it was a small book in the description, but I hoped that the content would be dense and useful...it was not.

This book was copyrighted in 2001, yet there isn't even a mention of HIPAA or ASCA. This book is best described as an advertisment for the use of EDI. It rambles on & on about how great EDI is (yes, we know that) but never gets into any meat about standards, communications, formats, etc.

Save your 45 bucks...it would be better spent on beer...

This is a 114 page book that could've easily been written in a third of the space. It took only 20 minutes to read. It is badly edited, with several typos and bad internal references. A good deal of the information in it is out of date, and there is very little technical information at all. It seems to be a small expansion of a magazine article written for purchasing people. It is addressed to senior management, but I don't know of any senior management who would listen to the hype. It would be a good book to give a senior management person whom you don't like, but wants to know something about EDI.

The book is very poorly written and is lacking in content.

Grammer aside I found the content to be poorly organized, very fragmented and incomplete.

CAUTION: Most of the reviews listed for this Cram101 really describe the real hardcover textbook. Don't make the same mistake that I did...I bought this softcover "outline" and it was the next best thing to being robbed. There are 65 pages in the book, 33 of those pages are blank (college ruled notebook paper) and the other 32 list unrelated, useless definitions.

Every other page in the book is blank (they say: so you can create your own outline). Wait! Isn't that what they claim that they are selling you here?? The description tells you the textbook is not included...well surprise, neither is the textbook OUTLINE!

The pages that aren't blank only list definitions (isn't that what the dictionary is for?) But even the definitions are worthless. They repeat the same definitions over and over (for example, 'accounting' is repeated more than 7 times--I counted!). Additionally, they define things that are not useful like the words: budget, inventory, users, license...etc). I had to check the title again, because none of this related to the real textbook on Data Communications & Networking!

I soon realized that the real purpose of the "book" is to get the buyer to go to the cram101 website and purchase more services. SAVE YOUR MONEY, there are no notes in this so-called book, in fact it would be cheaper to buy some ruled notebook paper and make your own notes from the hardcover textbook.