Richard Bejtlich wrote: >On 2/23/06, chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>- pay people? Putting a book together is a lot of work and time away from >>> the day job that feeds the family >>> >>> >>An advance from the publisher or royalties. >> >> >> > >It doesn't sound like you have tried living off of royalties before! >Developers paid by the community to code software make far, FAR more >than authors of technical books. > > > Ok, richard you are very welcome to make a suggestion on how to pay people!
>It could take a year or longer to write a good book. Royalties or an >advance might pay 2-4 months of expenses, maximum. Technical authors >do not write for the money. :) > >Richard > > > _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
