LoneCoder: Writing Computer Books and Bill C-61

Mon Sep 29 15:06:59 UTC 2008

George Nicol wrote:
> Ken O. Burtch wrote:
>> My latest Lone Coder entry.
>> http://www.pegasoft.ca/coder/coder_september_2008.html
> Ken, have you read Cory Doctorow's first collection of essays?

His web site <http://boingboing.net/> will turn up an anecdote now and 
then about a book (at least one, and not the one George mentions 
later) whose sales increased (e.g.) 20% after they started giving it 
away.  Do technical or academic books ever get advertised anywhere, in 
any way, at all?

	Mel.
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