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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:00:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Birch <tree@pcrd.net>
Reply-To: William Birch <tree@pcrd.net>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
cc: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>, root@garbled.net,
        netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: a non-original idea. 
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> Somehow, a dump of man pages wouldn't seem quite as sexy as a full-blown
> book with a nice, glossy cover, a full-blown tutorial, and lots of practical
> information.

ok ... i have a question ... this questions stems from a genuine,
down-to-earth, honest-to-goodness lack of a CLUE! (so please don't
flame me into oblivion over this one :-)

  how hard (read: expensive) would it be for us to write, layout,
  and produce a book ourselves really be?

thought ... do the _whole_ thing, then contract a printing company
to make the whole thing, receiving back boxes of ready to go nifty
cool (glossy 'n everything) NetBSD books suitable to be sold on the
netbsd.com website, at trade shows, etc ...

-wil
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