August 2nd, 2005, 8:04 pm
anyone used this? If i published a book on it, would you still buy it?Yeah, quite probably, though it would be better if the sample stuff gave more of an idea of the actual contents, the first N pages are guff like acknolwedgements which tells us little.Given that 85% of the cover price gets absorbed by the publisher, bookshop, distributor et al seems to make a lot of sense.Would want to make sure it was a good quality print, and the book didn't just fall apart if I'm paying full price.Bruce Eckel has done very well with his Thinking in C++, Java etc series. He cites it as an arbitrage. It costs damn near a much to print a downlads web book as buying it, and you have 500 loose pages, which is a pain.Also of course, errors and updates can be fixed far more easily.