On Sep 9, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
In a message dated 9/9/2005 9:28:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The "Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces" book may be out
of
print, but it's available, used, through Amazon. Unfortunately, the
lowest
price is $332.00; yes Three Hundred Thirty Two dollars!
This is the real response to a post I saw a few days ago suggesting
that one
of the other highly knowledgeable posters write a book about something
(can't remember now; might have been Assembler). I volunteered as
principal
technical proofreader for Bob Johnson's book on DASD about 15 years,
and spent an
enormous amount of time with ZERO compensation. Bob and one of his
sons, the
authors, spent far more time than I in their authoring of it. They
received
all the royalties. I have thought about writing a computer book
myself, but
I don't really want to spend half a year on it and be paid about
$0.50 per
hour. The potential market is too rarefied, and no money to be made,
with
mainframe books unless the price is outrageously high, as in the
example above.
Bill Fairchild
Bill,
Sorry to hear about your bad experiences. But books of this should be
type of "print on Demand" no?
Ed
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