On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> > What is the license of the DjangoBook? Who owns the copyright? http://www.djangobook.com/ I've liked this (commentable version) - they hacked something they were not willing to share (at least a year ago)... Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss appear to retain copyright. I'm sure they'd talk to you about how they set it up, and they're both in Chicago now (I think - I know Adrian was). > > > Massimo > > On Jul 15, 5:13 pm, Bottiger <bottig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One idea is to do the same thing as DjangoBook.com. Have a freely > > commentable edition online so people can help improve it and you don't > > have to waste an entire summer writing one. Then you can sell the > > printed version to recover some costs. > > > > On Jul 15, 2:58 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > I have sold about 100 printed version before the end of the year 2008, > > > when PDF was not available. I do not know since then. I suspect nobody > > > buys the printed book given what it costs. The problem is that all of > > > the cost is in the overhead. I could reduce the cost to $25 by > > > publishing the printed copy with lulu. For the next version, one > > > option is to give the PDF free and the printed copy on lulu. > > > > > Massimo > > > > > On Jul 15, 4:14 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 15, 2009, at 1:07 PM, mdipierro wrote: > > > > > > > Would it make a difference it the book were to be free? > > > > > > The book is a very good introduction to and advertisement for web2py. > > > > > The cost of the pdf isn't a big deal, but I think that purchasing > > > > anything for any price is a much bigger barrier that clicking a > > > > download link. > > > > > > I'm curious: have you sold a significant number of the physical > books? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
