Book idea--further thoughts

[Michael Steinberg]

Very good points indeed, thanks.  My own publisher for the theory book 
makes everything available to 3d world publishers free of charge for 
exactly that reason. I suspect that these questions would be 
negotiable, since what an English-language publisher's mostly 
interested in is what they can sell in North America & the UK. Then 
there are non-computer publishers who publish copyleft 
texts--Autonomedia, for example, here in the US--though their 
orientation is primarily social/political and they aren't as well 
distributed.

Michael Steinberg


On Feb 1, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Joseph Method wrote:

> Sorry, and just to be clear , the reason why the text should be free
> is so that it can be translated into [insert obscure language] without
> the need to do a market study on whether it will sell. The high
> principle is that the disposable income of the First World subsidizes
> free documentation for the Third World.