D Programming Language Specification ebook

[Jimmy Cao]

I think free is best.
D is seriously lacking free learning resources.
And free does not necessarily mean crap, although the current specification
needs a bit of fixing here and there.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>wrote:

> I think it would be a good move to make a kindle ebook out of the
> specification on the web site. Not only will it be convenient for those who
> wish to peruse the spec using a kindle, it will be helpful for marketing
> etc.
>
> The difficulty is that if I put the ebook up on Amazon for free, people
> tend to equate free with "crap". It needs to have a price on it to be taken
> seriously.
>
> But if I put a price on it, people will be demotivated to continue
> contributing to it, because they'll perceive someone else profiting from
> their work.
>
> Perhaps proceeds from it should be put towards other promotions of D, like
> maybe a conference? More contests with prizes?
>
> What do you all think? $0? $4.99? $9.99?
>
> And yes, the content will be identical to that on the website, just
> formatted for the kindle.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d/attachments/20110703/4c3a588b/attachment.html>