I guess that would depend on if the book is still relevant to and likely to be owned by the person you're pitching.

Or, of course, you're making a glib commentary about retail bookstores, in which case, s/bookstore/amazon\.com/g.

> s/bookstore/amazon\.com/g

Well, anybody can self-publish on Amazon (and I do mean anybody, including the completely illiterate), so I'm not sure that's a very high bar.

While many can, I'm pretty sure not many actually do :) (at least for technical topics).

It depends on whether the employer will care to check your book references or not, I guess.