From: Jason Wells
To: ask_tim@oreilly.com
Subject: Hard Cover Request
Tim,
Learning the bash Shell
Essential System
Administration
I really abuse these books and would like to see them hardcovered.
I would purchase hardcovers instead of paperbacks if the price were within ~150
Thank you,
Jason Wells
P.S. I liked the rebuttal of RMS.
Jason,
Hmmm. This is one of those cases where people say one thing, but (as a collective) do another. We once published a set of books (Phigs Programming, I think) in both hardcover and paperback. Very few people bought the hardcover by choice.
This is actually a neat opportunity for somone, kind of like print on demand. You know, there are outfits who do hardcover binding on paperback books for libraries. It's not that expensive.
Someone like Computer Literacy (which is doing a lot of custom print on demand of documentation, sold online) might want to team up with a bindery and offer hardcover versions of books.
--Tim
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