On Friday, 4 January 2013 at 04:32:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
This is a misunderstanding and I confess I'm mildly miffed by
it. The e-book is generated from the online documentation.
$0.99 is the smallest price Amazon would allow any
self-publication to be on their site. Some people (negligible
as a source of income, but not few; the book makes it at times
on top 100 bestseller list in its category) do find value in
having the content on their Kindle, and are willing to pay one
dollar for it, so there is value in having it there. To
construe that as an awkward attempt to make money is quite a
bit of a stretch.
Andrei
Sorry, I didn't want to offend and I honestly never thought
anyone was making money from it, I just never understood why it
was on Amazon yet not on this website, so thanks for taking the
time to explain why the e-book is on Amazon, it makes perfect
sense now.
Perhaps an explanation such as "For your convenience, an e-book
is available at Amazon ..." next to the fixed link is a good
solution to prevent any possible misunderstandings.
No matter, I really do not want to get into this level of detail
as it's of very limited significance right now. All I was
attempting to point out was the need to move on with formalizing
a process for managing the specification, and you've clearly
acknowledged the desire to do exactly that. Once we have a better
process in place, many old recurring problems will automatically
go away.
--rt
