On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Roger Suhr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Somebody's got to pay for these books. Are you? > For me, it depends entirely on the cost. To what extent will I go? Well, I actually paid for Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1". The electronic version for Kindle set me back $51.19 . I doubt that I would pay as much for any single Redbook. But for something like the series "ABCs of IBM z/OS System Programming", then yes, I'd _pay_ for that. If I could afford it of, course. And especially if it were better formatted, such as using hyperlinks within the book as well as hyperlinks to the z/OS online manuals. Another possibility might be for IBM to organize the RedBooks by topics / applications and have something akin to Amazon's Kindle Prime, which is a subscription to access all of the books in that category. Of course, it would be nice if it were like the O'Reilly books, where when I buy a book, I can get future versions which contain corrections and errata for no cost. Would I subscribe to such a thing: Yes, if I could afford it. My company would _not_ pay for it, but _I_ would. If they wanted to, IBM could even "watermark" each book for each purchaser so that any copy could be traced back to the original purchaser. A sad thought, but some people would try to distribute a personal copy to others even it it is not really legal or "moral" (depends on an individual's morality evaluations). -- If you sent twitter messages while exploring, are you on a textpedition? He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
