Book Choice: Cloud Computing Made Easy

I chose my topic of the cloud information system, mostly because its a state of the art technological innovation that is going to impact everyone's life over the next few years.  The two main books that interested me were: "Management Information Systems" and "Cloud Computing Made Easy".  The first book was a much more detailed text book that gives an in depth detailed description of many current technology innovations.  It covers everything from social networking to IT to the cloud systems.  This book costs almost 200 dollars new.  None of the books i chose have reviews on Amazon, but this one has a detailed author profile. This book is available in a few UW Madison libraries.  It is available in 465 libraries total. The subject lines for this book revolve around the Information Systems as a whole, as well as multiple more specific subjects that the book also highlights.  I am looking for a book that specifically pertains to the cloud system, and though that is a sub-topic of this book, it is not an overwhelming focus.  Both of these two books were similarly popular on Library Thing.  They both had around 3.5 million hits. The "Management Information Systems" matched pretty well with books that I am interested in.  The books that it matched with had a very wide range, and tended to be more vague in dealing with the information system as a whole rather than just the cloud system.

I also found a book about the impacts that the cloud system is going to have on the healthcare system throughout the US.  Though I did not want to chose a book that was specific to an industry, I thought it would be extremely interesting to see the impacts the cloud system would have on the current healthcare system.  This book was also a more academic text book, and cost over 100 dollars. This book, "Delivering Health Care in America", is also available in multiple libraries around the UW campus, and many other UW schools. It is in 715 libraries total. The subject lines of this book pertain more so to the healthcare sector, than the cloud information system area. Though this book covers the clouds impact on healthcare, it focuses more on the healthcare system than the cloud system.  This book obviously has a more specific target audience, which is confirmed by its lack of popularity on library thing. It matched with books all throughout the healthcare business.  It had very few matches to books specifically dealing with the cloud system.

I chose the book "Cloud Computing Made Easy" for my book.  This book is a much less academic focused, allowing for the average reader to be able to find it useful.  This book has just over 100 pages, making it under half of the length of the other books.  It costs under 10 dollars, as it is a non-academic paperback.  It also seems like a great resource for someone who does not currently know much about the cloud, but is looking to learn the basics.  According to WorldCat, this book is only available in two libraries within 6000 miles.  The subject lines of this book are much more specific to cloud computing systems and IT systems.  Books like it cover the exact areas that I was looking for my book to focus on.  This book is most definitely less "out there" than the other two as seen through a Google search. The other two books had many hits, while this book seems to fly under the radar.  This book matched with books more focused on the cloud system, but the matches seemed very specific to certain industries or business plans.



There are no academic journals reviewing the "Cloud Computing Made Easy Book" in Proquest or Project Muse.  I plan to continue looking for book reviews in other databases.