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To: "Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net>
cc: William Birch <tree@pcrd.net>, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: a non-original idea. 
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:39:08 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


"Charles M. Hannum" writes:
> 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.

I'd say the right approach to this is to get the text produced
first. Later, once we have the text in the tree, people can read it
online at very worst. We need the text whether or not we print
anything ever.

Perry