On 7/4/2011 5:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/4/2011 1:50 AM, Johann MacDonagh wrote:
On 7/3/2011 10:11 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
What do you all think? $0? $4.99? $9.99?
What about skipping Amazon and putting it up on
d-programming-language.org and
ask for donations? I think Paypal will handle the processing for you
for free if
you show you're not doing it for profit.
People at the airport press a "free gift" on me, and then harangue me
for a donation. I think that's the wrong image for D. People shouldn't
be made to feel guilty about using D and not making a donation. I know
it would turn me off, at least.
Yeah, I suppose. I guess if you follow the progit model (like you
suggested) and said "Support the D community!" that would essentially be
the same thing
If you set a price we'd have to go through each page and clean them up
/ update
some for D2, etc... Donations make it nice because you can release newer
versions and donaters can update their copy without paying again.
The idea is to generate the ebook automatically from the web sources.
Right, but there are some pages that need updating. The FAQ (from a
recent NG post), is one. The "Handling errors" page probably needs some
examples. The DLL example code is outdated as well IIRC. I just think
guaranteeing that purchasers can get more up-to-date versions as pages
are tweaked would be a nice touch, and I'm not sure how well Amazon
handles that.
