Hojtsy Gabor wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> This is the downloadable book, and it is for free. They say
> it is the same content as the book you can buy...
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html
Oh my god, you can not get a book through a phone line. This is
physically impossible. You and I have to pay for that book. If you get
books for free, O'Reilly wouldn't exist anymore.
> > > 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?
>
> See http://www.php.net/books.php for some info about the hungarian
> PHP book. It is a translation of Sams: Teach Yourself PHP4 in 24 Hours.
> I don't know how much was payed to whom, it is not my business.
This is another very different case here. Every puplisher can translate
books from another publisher. The translating puplisher have to pay the
original publisher a fee to have the rights to translate. Next to this
steps the translating publisher would have is to find some translators
and technical reviewers. If this book is ever published, the original
author of that book will see some income. A book and a manual are
different things. I have been involved in some translated books and I
know what it means. Next month you can read the book from Sterling with
contributions from Andrei in German :)
> > To make the story short, it isn't allowed to earn money
> > with other peoples work.
>
> Right.
Agreed!
-Egon
