D Consortium as Book / App Publisher... ?

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 16:51:38 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 15:24:23 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 12:55:19 UTC, Jakob Jenkov 
>> wrote:
>>>> All decent ideas- I've been thinking recently about setting 
>>>> up a paid blog for articles by D devs- but without someone 
>>>> to explore and push them, they will go nowhere, ie somebody 
>>>> has to do the work of wrangling the writers and docs.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by a "paid blog" ?
>>
>> Simple, a blog that you pay to read...
>
> In the age of "FREE" everywhere do you really expects people 
> paying for a blog? I don't think so. You may go with ads 
> instead!

The problem is ads make no money for the vast majority of 
writers, so they have to write a book and sell it to make writing 
worth their time.  This is why you have to pay for almost all the 
D books, with free online books like Ali's the rare exception to 
the rule.

Most readers know they have to pay for quality.  If you don't 
want to, that's up to you.