D Consortium as Book / App Publisher... ?

[Bubbasaur via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 17:01:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> 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.

I see, but I thought the money was for the D 
Consortium/Organization.

Anyway it's really a big problem, if you see, currently sites 
like: vice, verge, medium etc. They all work with ads, every time 
you see a "click bait" title.

I remember paying $50 ~ $80 for Programming books, but that were 
the old times, today with ebooks and piracy things are bad.

Bubba.