D Consortium as Book / App Publisher... ?

Jakob Jenkov via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Dec 25 04:40:13 PST 2015


On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 17:19:30 UTC, karabuta wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 21:09:31 UTC, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
>
>> Writing a focused book of around 100 pages can be done in 3-6 
>> months. If more people chip in, it might even be faster.
>
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> There are these books floating around where various programmers 
> actually come together to write them. Each author take charge 
> of a section. They go like:
>
> Problem: How to rename all files in a directory.
> Solution: ......
>
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> They take advantage of common tasks and make them into a book. 
> These books really sell. D community/Consortium can do similar 
> if is worth it.


Wrox Publishing uses this model. Not all their books are really 
good, but they can be decent. I was thinking the D Language 
Foundation could do the same. But I guess someone has to take the 
reigns, make a plan and mobilize people.


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