On 1/6/13 12:58 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:45:24 -0500
Andrei Alexandrescu<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
On 1/6/13 12:01 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:32:45 -0500
Andrei Alexandrescu<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
On 1/3/13 11:26 PM, Rob T wrote:
I like the idea of the e-book but we need an up-to-date copy and
it should be available free of charge. If the D community needs
funding, a method of making donations is a much better and more
acceptable route to take.
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.
It's an ebook version of the content on dlang.org, right? That
should be free. If Amazon won't allow it to be free then it
shouldn't be on Amazon. End of story.
Walter and I discussed this matter for a while and reached a
different conclusion. Amazon has good distribution which we found
worthwhile.
Amazon's reach is irrelevant given the bigger issue.
The content is the same as the one freely available on
the website,
Which is exactly why it has no business existing in a paid
electronic form.
and we're not sketchy about it.
I'm tempted argue that it's _inherently_ sketchy, HOWEVER that's
irrelevant anyway as, sketchy or not, it still creates an appearance of
impropriety, which is bad enough for us.
That's not my perception at all, which signals we might have reached
irreducible positions. I won't discuss this further.
Andrei
