Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
Simon St.Laurent wrote: > XSL-FO, RELAX NG, XForms, and Open Office XML Essentials are all, I > believe, going to remain "open" - O'Reilly will sell them on paper, but > electronic versions will remain available on the Web. This is not > unusual for us, though it isn't typical of publishing in general. We > suspect there are some lost sales, but also some additional sales and > benefits that wouldn't happen otherwise. Interesting. Phillip Greenswpun confirms that other publishers don't see it that way: "Two publishers have approached us wanting to do a hardcopy version of http://philip.greenspun.com/internet-application-workbook/ (the textbook for 6.171 at MIT). Both have lost interest when we said that we wanted to keep the text online. To a traditional publisher the Web is a place for stuff that isn't quite good enough to sell." -- http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/10/09#a2589
|
