Ubuntu book

[John Hornbeck]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 09:57 +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> PS
> 
> Have you considered using the model of publishing Bruce Eckel used for
> Thinking in Java.  Basicaly he developed the bood on line so people
> could comment on it.  Have a look at
> http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/.
> 
> >From the website:-
> 
> Why do you put your books on the Web? How can you make any money that way? 
>  
> I think we're clearly in the brave new world of the Internet here, and
> as far as I know I was one of the first to do what I did - publish the
> book as I was developing it, and leave it as a free book in
> perpetuity, after it was printed (Eric Raymond is most likely the
> first person to have actually done this). Personally, I was prepared
> to have low sales but the book brought people to my web site and to
> the CD Rom and seminars, so I felt it was worth the risk. Prentice
> Hall did a low first printing because they were worried about the
> online book cannibalizing sales. However, this book has done better
> than all the other books I've written — for the first time I've gotten
> royalty checks that have made a difference (book publishing in general
> is a pretty high-risk business; the figures I've heard are "10% break
> even, 1% are profitable).
> 
> Read the rest of this at http://mindview.net/FAQ/FAQ-010
> 
> Ben

Hey Ben,
	This sounds like a great idea.  I was wanting to find a way to do it so
that people could help but so it would still be my writing style.  I
think the best way to approach that would be to publish what I have as I
go and people could make correction's and submit them back.  I really
like that :-)

	As far as the Debian Book, I am really looking to start from scratch
here guys.  I don't want to just copy something and call it our own, I
want a book that is for Ubuntu.  I would also really like something that
could be published and be in libraries.

	Thanks for the ideas, and as I move along I will be talking to everyone
about this and working with all of you.  Thanks for being a great group
to work with so far.


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John Hornbeck
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