As a Redbooks author I'll take a percentage. :-)   TGIF. :-)

Cheers, Martin

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From:   Shane Ginnane <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   17/04/2015 14:00
Subject:        Re: Ads in Redbookd.
Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>



On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:32:52 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:

>Given what we pay for Redbooks, I can understand IBM wanting some kind
>of revenue stream and find print ads easy to ignore.

And how long before we have "sponsored" authors - if you can't bring some 
bucks, you aren't welcome (F1 drivers come to mind).
Then what - product placement in the body of the text ?.

If the redbooks lose their balanced technical reputation, it's all 
down-hill. That'll cost IBM much more than they might make out of it.

Shane ...

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