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To: William Birch <tree@pcrd.net>
cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>,
        Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>, root@garbled.net,
        netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: a non-original idea. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:00:26 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:09:24 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


My suggestion is that we write more tutorials and such as sections for 
the programmers and users supplementary documents sections of the
existing books, and worry about how we get it printed and sold when we 
have text to print and sell....

William Birch writes:
> ok ... i have a question ... this questions stems from a genuine,
> down-to-earth, honest-to-goodness lack of a CLUE! (so please don't
> flame me into oblivion over this one :-)
> 
>   how hard (read: expensive) would it be for us to write, layout,
>   and produce a book ourselves really be?
> 
> thought ... do the _whole_ thing, then contract a printing company
> to make the whole thing, receiving back boxes of ready to go nifty
> cool (glossy 'n everything) NetBSD books suitable to be sold on the
> netbsd.com website, at trade shows, etc ...