Hojtsy Gabor wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> You can't get "THE BOOK" over a telephone line, but you can
> get "THE WHOLE CONTENTS (TEXT) OF THE BOOK".
>
> | 5. Getting This Book
> | If you want to hold this book in your hand and flip through its pages,
> | you have to buy it as you would any other book. You can also get this
> | book in electronic form, as a DocBook SGML document, and in HTML, either
> | on the CD that accompanies the bound book or from this book's web site:
> | http://docbook.org/.
>
> So you can buy, or you can download for free. You chosse the format.
You can get content in all formats you can dream. But if you want a real
book, you have to pay for it. You can also transform a DocBook SGML
document or a another format and print it. But that are nearly the same
costs you have to pay to the publisher.
-Egon
