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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:58:14 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net>
To: William Birch <tree@pcrd.net>
Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: a non-original idea.


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

Last I knew, the Free Software Foundation made <$5/book net profit,
and on some of the lower volume ones, even less.  O'Reilly actually
claimed to have lost a fair amount of money producing the 4.4 books.

If we actually wrote a really good basic tutorial book, and packed a
CD in each one, I'd bet we could sell a lot of copies.  But it's going
to require a large investment.