[Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

[Ali M.]

"Education (or knowledge depending on how you translate it) is As
Indispensable As Water and Air"
-- Taha Hussein (an Egyptian scholar)

One of the maing benefits of Free Software is Free education, I don't
understand when a Free Software proponent do not also support just as
much free education in the form of free docs and books

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Matt Rosin <telebody at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I am very much for both free and commercial docs. The more docs
> of both types the better.
> I would prefer that experts loved by the community be given incentives
> to do both.
>
> Books are nice, but I would probably prefer purchasing just the
> digital version of a book right now.
> No shipping or printing costs, always at my fingertips.
>  Ideally it would include a lifetime ID so I could download it with
> revisions and code forever, so if I lost the data I could get it
> again.
>  It would have to be unencumbered and preferably both a PDF and pod versions.
>
> I'd like recognition of a relationship and credit toward future
> purchases. As a loyal customer I tend to repurchase things I like over
> the years, multiple times.
>
> I wonder if it could be made cheaper by forgoing the physical printing
> but giving the author/editor/publishing team the same profit. That
> might make it easier for more people to get hold of it.
>
> My 2 yen,
>
> Matt R.
>
>
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