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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:47:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sean Berry at CSI <berry@neverland.chaney.net>
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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Just do this one like the Lion's book, pass it around in source, and make
it easily reproducible.  'hand-bound' copies would be pretty popular, I'm
thinking, especially with a cd content makefile.  :)

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> 
> > 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.
>