Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
It’s a catch-22. They will add more books when the existing ones are
selling in sufficient quantities.Hint, hint…
Does it count that I happen to have both ‘The Pragmatic Programmer’
and ‘The Ruby Way’ in my safari bookshelf constantly?Actually, this brings me to a question I’ve had for some time, do you
authors get any money when we check out your books in safari, or is it
a one time deal (i.e. you get X money if you release your books to
safari)?I have a bad conscience regarding not to have bought these two books,
as I’d really like you to get the chance to write more, and still,
there are always the poor trees to think about.I know, I should find a hobby.
As to the Safari thing: Would you believe I don’t know much more
about it than you do? Their system for handling that is not even
automated yet. In theory I do get royalties on those on a per-copy
basis, but I’ve yet to see any records on it.
In any case, I haven’t seen a penny in royalties yet. They have to
make up the advance they gave me while the manuscript was in progress.
I hope to see some royalties before Ruby 3.0 comes out. 1/2
As for the trees, dont you every tree that isn’t cut down for a
Ruby book will be cut down to make a third of a C++ book?
Hal
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:17:38AM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:24 AM, Hal Fulton wrote: