What is this D book?

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On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:33:39 -0800
Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> The funny thing is that I wouldn't have expected anyone to be able to create 
> book 96 pages long on D just out of Wikipedia articles. And $44 for 96 pages?! 
> LOL. The knowledge in that book would have to be pure gold to worth that kind of 
> price. What a total rip-off. It probably popped up just because TDPL was released 
> and some guys were looking to cash in. Maybe they were even hoping that some 
> people would be foolish enough to mistake their book for TDPL.
> 
> I don't think that print-on-demand publishing is necessarily a bad thing, but 
> this is obviously a case where someone is trying to cash in on something that 
> they did no work for.

I agree the price is surprisingly high.
But you are very wrong in stating "trying to cash in on something that they did no work for": Making a book out of diverse material is _much_ work (I've done it). Actually so much and difficult work that it's often worth rewriting from scratch! Just like trying to put together a bunch of lib modules and make an app run fine out of that ;-)

Denis
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