Hojtsy Gabor wrote:
>
> > > > (and don't be afraid that making your stuff free will
> > > > harm sales, it will most likely be the other way round
> > > > making people buy the book instead of printing out
> > > > the manual themselves)
> > >
> > > The same happened to some Hungarian books (free online
> > > version and a book), and it works very well. And see
> > > http://www.docbook.org/
> >
> > Huh, do you mean Norman Walsh's book TDG? The situation here is very
> > different from our case. Norman is the leader of the DocBook effort and
> > he will receive money from the publisher. If you read this online,
> > Norman gets no money. Anyway, DocBook is like PHP a Open Source Software
> > and to publish a book is commercial.
>
> O'reilly published that book, you can also download in many formats
> for free. This was what I meant.
I know, I have this book but it is not free. You and I have to pay the
publishere a fee and Norman will receive a small portion from every sold
copy of this book. Sure, the DocBook online manual is Open Source and
you don't need anything to pay if you wish to read it online. A online
manual is a completly different thing as a published book. You have to
pay for a printed book and the author can fill his petty cash. I know
this isn't so bad, but I know examples and this could be the worsed case
for every author.
> > Tell me a publisher who publish a book and give it away as gift.
>
> Kiskapu (the publisher of the first hungarian PHP book) also
> published a Linux book, and made the contents available online. :))
How many dollars or euros do have to pay and is it a translated PHP
manual or have the author written that book from scratch?
> > If someone will translate the PHP manual and publish it (through a
> > publisher), the original authors don't get money. This is IMHO
> > plagiarism.
>
> You are Right. I meant that the same people publishes who is the
> author. Hartmut said, that Angriawan should commit his changes
> to the phpdoc team, and so he can publish that book. It is
> not the same case, as you are talking about. I can agree with
> you in the current case.
To make the story short, it isn't allowed to earn money with other
peoples work.
-Egon
