Book People Archive

RE: OCW as System of Electronic Books



  Dear BookPeople,

  I wrote to Havoc Pennington, asking him if he and New Riders made any
money off of his book, which I've seen a few times on the Internet.
  Here are two locations:

  http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ggad.html
  http://webs1152.im1.net/reader.pl?section=ggad

  His reply to my question "But did you make money?" follows.

  Take care,
    Lion Kimbro =^_^=



Lion Kimbro <lion@[redacted]> writes:
> 
>   I'm on a list called BookPeople, and we were wondering if money can be
> made on Open/Free books.
> 
>   If I may ask:
>   Did you and/or New Riders Press make any money on your book, GTK+/GNOME
> Application Development?
>   If you did, was it more/less than otherwise would have been made?
>   Did anybody resell it as one of their own publications?
> 

I (and I assume New Riders) did make some money. For the second
question, I have no idea - it's sort of hard to guess what would have
happened.

I don't know of anyone reselling it, though it's on some websites such
as andamooka.org. There are lots of competing books out there, so it
seems most publishers decided to create their own rather than copy.

>   If you don't mind, I'd like to report your answer to the BookPeople list
> as well.
> 

Sure, go ahead.

Havoc