Re: Pirate PHP books online?

Hello Zoltán, Am 2007-07-19 15:14:53, schrieb Zoltán Németh: > I didn't want to get involved in this thread, though it was interesting > to read... > However, an idea just came into my mind: what if you, as the author, > could offer a download for a price which would be the same as what you > get after a sold paper copy? According to what you just said, it would The idea is nice but... I am writing myself some books and produce it using <http://www.bod.de/> where BOD is Books-On-Demand. IF I sell my education books (se previously E-Mail) books for 15 Euro each over bookstores, I earn only 1 Euro per book. If you buy the books directly from me, I earn arround 3,20 Euro per book. So, the 2,20 Euro was eaten by the Distributing service... And yes, I will sell the BOOKS and PDF over my Website, bt I have to pay my backbone (Dual STM-4) and other things, so selling th PDF for 1 Euro against 15 Euro the Hardcopy is DEFINITIVLY a NO! > be much cheaper for the download than for a paper copy, which might > cause more or less of the downloaders of the pirated file to download it > legally and pay this smaller price to you. > I admit that it won't stop pirating, but it might be good for those who > are willing to pay to you, but either can't afford the paper copy or are > not willing to pay to the publishing company - and it might increase > your revenues a bit too. Since my contract with the french Mod is running out at 2007-07-31 I need a new income, otherwise it would be not realy funny with my kids. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)