On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:03, Steve Garcia wrote:You should go over to Prentice Hall, they are very open to publishing free e copies.
Will the book provide documentation in addition to (hopefully) the 1.0 final
documentation that will get updated at maven.apache.org? Or will the book
contain a substantial amount of documentation that cannot be found on the
web?
It will more than likely be information that can't be found on the web.
I would like to release an electronic copy of the book for free but I
don't think I'll be able to swing that.
You mentioned Bruce Eckel, maybe he has written something about bargaining.
His big argument was it would greatly increased the quality of the book,
because users continually read critiqued his work.
It was XP not eXtreme Programming but eXtreme Publishing.
At look he won numerous awards for his Thinking in Java & Thinking in C++.
At there very least you may be able to get a few prime chapters made available.
I myself would like to see a complete Maven documentation effort be released
on the maven website, much like Ant's documentation is all on the website.
Publishers are not really into giving away the content of books they
intend to sell. I think it could work in their favour much like it did
for Bruce Eckel's books but the decision is not ultimately up to me. I
can only ask that an electronic copy be put on the web at no cost.
