Re: Marketing help wanted

At 19 July 2002, [email protected] (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote:
>Please keep in mind that except for runaway bestsellers (like the
>Camel and Llama), books *never* make enough money to pay back the time
>you could have spent billing to customers.  Books are a credential and
>a work of passion, not an income source.

That's why none of my books ideas have bubbled up to the top of my 
to-do list just yet.  It seems like all of my colleagues now have 
books out, but I'm holding out until I find the right topic.

The idea that it's more for the prestige than the money makes a strong 
case for open-sourcing a book.  I've been watching how O'Reilly has 
open sourced some of its books.
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Danny Faught
Tejas Software Consulting
http://tejasconsulting.com