On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:33:39 -0800 Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote:
> The funny thing is that I wouldn't have expected anyone to be able to create > book 96 pages long on D just out of Wikipedia articles. And $44 for 96 > pages?! > LOL. The knowledge in that book would have to be pure gold to worth that kind > of > price. What a total rip-off. It probably popped up just because TDPL was > released > and some guys were looking to cash in. Maybe they were even hoping that some > people would be foolish enough to mistake their book for TDPL. > > I don't think that print-on-demand publishing is necessarily a bad thing, but > this is obviously a case where someone is trying to cash in on something that > they did no work for. I agree the price is surprisingly high. But you are very wrong in stating "trying to cash in on something that they did no work for": Making a book out of diverse material is _much_ work (I've done it). Actually so much and difficult work that it's often worth rewriting from scratch! Just like trying to put together a bunch of lib modules and make an app run fine out of that ;-) Denis -- -- -- -- -- -- -- vit esse estrany ☣ spir.wikidot.com
