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11:22 | 17-10-2009 | Copyright | No Comments
натурально, steal this book:
Peter Cooper, the author of Beginning Ruby, breaks down how he gets paid for the book, including the advance and royalties, giving a nice clean explanation of how authors get paid for their books. He also describes the negotiations over the second edition of the book, in which he begged his publisher, Apress, to offer the ebook version for free, believing (strongly) that it would promote sales of the paper book. He even notes that the original version’s ebook barely had noteworthy sales, so it seemed reasonable to offer up the ebook for free to drive more attention. No dice. Even though Apress has done that with other similar titles, it wouldn’t agree. As he retains the copyright for the actual text, he encourages people to buy the book and create an online version of it without covers, contents table and indexes, promising not to enforce his copyright over the new work.
для кого-то “пиратство” — это единственно возможный способ дышать в свободном мире. а для кого-то всего лишь очередная реклама, способ увеличить доход. хорошо, то есть, что пока они идут рука об руку. но цели у них совершенно противоположные, надо это четко понимать.