On 7 March 2010 12:00, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote: > >Timothy Sipples recently posted that it was incorrect. > >He is the first IBM'r to say something about these 'plans'. > >Until I hear it from an official IBM source, it is a rumour. > > Or a "rumor", in the US :-) > > Count me firmly in the "this would be a stupid, stupid idea" camp. HOWEVER, > here's the reason it might at least be on the table: > - Redbooks cost money -- residencies, staff time, etc. that likely is not > directly recovered by any paper copy sales > - Books like the Dummies, "The Missing Manual", et al. provide the > theoretical equivalent of Redbooks for other platforms > > Ergo, if you're a beancounter, it would be easy to say "Let's stop doing > this for free and let the market figure it out". >
These would presumably be the same beancounters who decided that after almost 50 years, it would make sense to start charging hefty subsciption fees for IBM's research journals last year. That was another "stupid, stupid idea", but it hasn't been reversed, despite plenty of complaining here and elsewhere.. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
