After receiving feedback from this email forum and Reddit. I've decided to remove the book from Amazon and will rebrand it as a beginner's guide. I never meant to be disingenuous and it seems calling it a *bible* has pissed off a lot of people. I wont be adding it to the list of recommended books any time soon. Thanks for all the feedback and comments, I should have asked the community input first before publishing it.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 6:57 PM Moritz Barsnick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 15:44:54 -0400, John Riselvato wrote: > > It's a full-color book and I'm only getting 5 USD per sale because of the > > number of pages. So even if I sold 100 books (which I've yet to sell a > > single book since releasing it 2 days ago) I would barely cover a week of > > the 2 months I spend writing it, plus editing and cover art. I'm never > > going to make the money back on this project it's just a resume builder > > during this time I don't have a job because of the virus. I'm returning > the > > favor by creating a book to hopefully introduce the API to the next > > generation of FFmpeg users. > > This is totally legit. (Unless you're only scraping other people's > support efforts. :->) > > While you *can* sell open source software under certain conditions - > even if it's not yours - that is quite frowned upon. On the other hand, > making a business out of support for open source software is accepted > and widespread. Even SuSE and Redhat and many many others live off this > (and off other services and prorietary enhancements of course). > > Disclaimer: I haven't seen your book yet. :-) > > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
