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. _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
