On Sep 11, 2007, at 9:47 AM, lanas wrote:
But, as Randal says, a POE book would be a work of charity and a gift
to the Perl community. It's not a book that's going to make any
money.
From your description, many, many software books shouldn't bring much
money to the authors. Like the 10 books or so on Ruby on Rails. I'm
curious, and this could be going OT, but is there a possibility that
these books on Rails generates more money than any book about Perl
simply because Ruby is seemingly more popular ?
A good friend of mine just wrote one of those books, so I'll ask him
if he's made any money of it in a few months. But, I can tell you
for sure that his motivation for writing the book was not to make
money. Rather it was to gain credibility in the community.
-kevin
