[scribus] ANNOUNCEMENT: Scribus - The Official Manual is now available for sale!

[Jurgen Gaeremyn]

Hi Tom,

as an advocate of Creative Commons, I can understand your point of view.
But never the less... you are rude.
I don't think the book will be as profitable as to give Gregory a living 
out of it... a lot of sweat and time has gone into this book (I assume). 
He also made the choice to share profits with the Scribus project.

The negativity in you mail causes me to call your bluff: I really hope 
that you are very envolved in the Scribus project, be it by documenting, 
coding or translating, bug-tracking or promoting it in professional areas...
It is too easy to bark up a tree telling how much better it would have 
been if it were creative commons - and possibly it would be... But at 
least now we have a book. All we had up to recently, was a more or less 
regularly updated bunch of wiki pages scattered over a dozen sites. I 
think this book is a great improvement. And indeed, some people won't be 
able to buy the book because of the economic crisis. I empathise with 
these victims of the financial turmoil, but it is way too easy to attack 
the person who actually acomplished the job.

Googling for "book on scribus by tom poe" didn't give me very much hits...

I doubted about sending this mail, as I might be feeding the troll... 
but I think it's too important to not to.

Jurgen.

Tom Poe wrote:
> Gregory Pittman wrote:
>> John Beardmore wrote:
>>> Gregory Pittman wrote:
>>>
>>>> To all list subscribers:
>>>>
>>>> The long-anticipated official manual is now available for 
>>>> pre-release sales at:
>>>>
>>>> www.flesbooks.com
>>>>
>>>> Christoph and I, along the many other contributors, are very 
>>>> pleased with the final 438-page product of our labors. Without 
>>>> doubt, this the *the* most comprehensive source of information 
>>>> about Scribus. Profits from the sale of the book will go to the 
>>>> Scribus project as our way of giving back to this project we love 
>>>> so much, so it's also a way for users who appreciate Scribus to not 
>>>> only buy the best source of answers to the many questions they 
>>>> have, but also in turn keep this project healthy and moving forward.
>>>>
>>>> If you act quickly, you can also benefit from a 10% discount in the 
>>>> £29.99 list price and buy it for £26.99 -- after conversion to 
>>>> other currencies the price will vary slightly, but with the current 
>>>> economic environment and the fall in the GBP, now is a *great* time 
>>>> to buy that may not get any better. Regardless of whether you buy 
>>>> now or later, shipping is *free* (as in beer) *worldwide*!
>>>>
>>>> Greg Pittman
>>>
>>> Thanks Greg.  Is this also available in any electronic form ?
>> not yet. Obviously we would like to promote book sales at first. With 
>> our contract with flesbooks, we may be committed to book-only 
>> availability for about a year.
>>
>> Greg
>>
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> Hmmm.  Best way to promote book sales might be to license it under the 
> Creative Commons, make it available to the world over the Internet, 
> and encourage readers to review it, and hope it becomes a staple of 
> educational institutions around the world, who will then purchase and 
> promote it.  Not to mention, speaking engagements and workshop 
> invitations to the authors.
>
> In the meantime, keep in mind, there are literally millions of workers 
> losing jobs, and tens of millions over the next few months, who will 
> be unable to purchase your manual.  But, hey, you keep working with 
> flesbooks.com and enjoy the income they provide you.
> Happy Holidays,
> Tom