D Programming Language Specification ebook

[Walter Bright]

On 7/4/2011 12:47 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> Free books does not mean free eBooks. A free book takes money to create every
> copy, so it can be assumed that if it's free, they are making their money some
> other way (i.e. they are selling you something indirectly). But a free eBook
> does not require money per copy to produce, so its quality cannot be judged
> based on the price (either way, check out alphascript publishing).

Cannot be? Sure. But it is. There were some recent articles about how Amazon is 
being flooded with junk ebooks, and that a lot of people seem to be filtering 
them based on price.


> How about this, if you charge any amount of money more than 0, I guarantee you
> will have less than 10% of the downloads than if you gave it away for free. Plus
> you will alienate people who think they bought an actual D book (or worse, think
> they are getting a deal on Andrei's book) and feel like chumps. That should be
> great for D's image :P

It's a fair point.