What if the developers donate (or do a fund raising... ) to fund the writing of the book?
We could set a budget ... then start pledging for the same.. when the pledge amount is enough, we pay and the work begins. Then we get the book for free ..... or something like that. Josh On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Michael Mosmann <mich...@mosmann.de>wrote: > Am 27.07.2012 00:16, schrieb Igor Vaynberg: > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Bertrand Guay-Paquet >> <ber...@step.polymtl.ca> wrote: >> >>> Seeing how the previous book authors became less active after writing >>>> a book I think this is not a very good idea... :-/ >>>> >>> Is this because the books didn't sell well enough? >>> >> i can only speak for myself, >> >> define enough :) i agreed to work on the book knowing full well it was >> not going to sell a million copies. i wrote it so the community has an >> easily accessible resource. >> > same for me.. but a german market differ from a more global one:) > > I don't know the authors >>> personally and I don't know much about the publishing world so it could >>> very >>> well be another reason altogether. >>> >> writing the book was a very long and a very exhausting effort, much >> much more then i thought it would be. when i was done the book was >> actually twice as long as what was published, but the publisher wanted >> me to trim it down to keep the cost low... they would have to charge >> more if the book had more pages :/ >> > I had to come upfront with how much pages it would be in the end. The > publisher made their calculation based on it, so the page count is more > strict than some one may think. > > >> the combination of those two things has burned me out somewhat. at >> least enough to make me want to go play with other things for a while. >> >> -igor >> > same for me, but more time has passed, so i would take the pain again:) > maybe i am a fool:) > > Michael:) > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@wicket.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > >
