Ohmygosh, I can't Believe how popular this thread is...
Perhaps a branch on "liberal" vs "conservative" politics? Will it ever end?
Tom
John Farrar wrote:
I will say this on Hal’s defense. The value of the material in this
information era is tainted in our perception. If you look at the total
value of a car, tires are cheap. (I would illustrate with another part
of the car... but truth is most techs wouldn’t know what I was talking
about.) Look at a tire and there is nothing cool about it. In fact we
have to put fancy hubs on tires to make them cool. (Oh… you could
paint a white line around it.) In fact for years people were willing
to pay a clearly higher price just for a white wall tire!
So, what’s the point. Hal should determine the value of his offering,
and the viability of the market. I didn’t pay that much for the book…
but never joined the badgering of the book. As far as I will go is the
standing reality that if the book was PDF then the production costs
would be lower. (And people who knock Hal for the cost of this book
need to look at the popular CD/DVD training courses on the market.
They don’t contain any more information and are clearly higher in price!)
John Farrar
* From: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*On Behalf Of *Hal Helms
*Sent:* Monday, January 16, 2006 3:16 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* RE: [CFCDev] Free vs. Paid Training for CF frameworks WAS
State of Coldfusion UI Development
Yes, it could be that we were trying to scam people--or it could be
that you saw our inexperience showing. The "giant font" was all of 12
points. We thought having more white space would make the book easier
to read. But when faced with two alternatives, I know I always try to
pick the one with the more sinister implications. I'm glad I'm not
alone. Send me an email ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
and I'll make sure you get your money back for the CFCs book.
* From: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*On Behalf Of *M@ Bourke
*Sent:* Sunday, January 15, 2006 9:12 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [CFCDev] Free vs. Paid Training for CF frameworks WAS
State of Coldfusion UI Development
Problem with Techspedition is there was to much wastage of space.
trying to make books look bigger then they are, on my desk I have
about 15 books here at work and all have the same font except for
Techspedition which has giant font and 2 inch empty footers and
headers on every page and over done it code samples.
I have the cfc book of which I looked at once then pushed to the back
and if it had normal size font and no code samples it would be roughly
12 pages the whole book.
if Techspedition brings out more books I won't be buying them unless
they get a bit more realistic, people are smart enough to buy a 100
page book over a 500 page book if they hear the 100 page book has
great content.
On 1/16/06, *John Farrar* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
So... what is the fixed cost of the PDF version? Seems like that could
be a
good solution! Now we can even do some wild things with video editing
packages... so maybe we will see a revival of Techspedition?
John Farrar
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