On 12/03/2012 07:39 AM, Raindrops From Sky wrote: > In the end, who will spawn new exciting writers, at his own risk?
No one... including Packt, or any other vanity press. It's not like Packt is offering to pay anyone an advance to write a book, and on-demand presses all make money on every book sold. There is no risk on their part. The reason they come to writers (and others) directly is because they're looking for more material to sell; that's part of their marketing strategy. In other words, a request out of the blue from Packt to write a book for them is unsolicited commercial email -- that is, spam. It's kind of like those "we buy gold" or "I'll pay you to link to my site from yours" emails, except that Packt is asking you to do dozens or hundreds of hours of work before you see a dime. While they make a big deal about "supporting" open source projects, I would hope that anyone considering writing for them will at least look at the other vanity publishers to see whose royalty scheme would most benefit them (and their projects) before committing to anything. Maybe Packt would end up on top, and maybe it would be Lulu or Cafepress or any of the dozens of other print-on-demand publishers. But even then, Packt seems to claim copyright on whatever they publish: http://www.ripoffreport.com/adult-career-continuing-education/david-barnes/david-barnes-blogger-of-packt-25df2.htm No other on-demand press that I'm aware of does such a thing. Proceed at your own risk, I guess, but I personally try to avoid doing business with spammers. Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Lmms-users mailing list Lmms-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-users
