> > This is the downloadable book, and it is for free. They say
> > it is the same content as the book you can buy...
> > http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html
>
> Oh my god, you can not get a book through a phone line. This is
> physically impossible. You and I have to pay for that book. If you get
> books for free, O'Reilly wouldn't exist anymore.
You can't get "THE BOOK" over a telephone line, but you can
get "THE WHOLE CONTENTS (TEXT) OF THE BOOK".
| 5. Getting This Book
| If you want to hold this book in your hand and flip through its pages,
| you have to buy it as you would any other book. You can also get this
| book in electronic form, as a DocBook SGML document, and in HTML, either
| on the CD that accompanies the bound book or from this book's web site:
| http://docbook.org/.
So you can buy, or you can download for free. You chosse the format.
Goba