[email protected] schrieb:
Just some of the eBook advantages:
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The main argument contra - as I recall it - was that PDFs can be illegally copied, and this was used to wipe away all the possible advantages.
That's true only for people that make their living from writing and selling books. When a program/project is available for free, why shouldn't the documentation come for free as well? There is no real need that the book writers should earn money, while the coders should not.
In practice I agree that it can be hard work, to write a book about mostly undocumented code like FPC and Lazarus, and even I've been thinking about providing *and* selling according documentation myself. But I would have done that by myself, in digital form, without an professional publisher who wouldn't work for free...
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