From:	newhallw AT escmail DOT orl DOT mmc DOT com
Date:	Mon, 12 Aug 96 07:42:10 EDT
Message-Id:	<9608121142.AA15527@cvfive>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com, fnunez AT cs DOT uct DOT ac DOT za
Subject:	Re: The DJGPP Book Project

>This has been done before, I once downloaded a book called "the hacker
>crackdown" (or something like that). The author reached some agreement with
>his publisher in order to allow FTP access to a plaintext form of it. This
>was in '93 I think, and less people had FTP access back then. The publishers
>may not be too keen to do something similar now that the 'net's just about
>everywhere.

Perhaps I'm getting into this a little late(just got back from SIGGRAPH), but 
couldn't you pull a "Matt Welsh" where the book is distibuted on the net
in a variety of formats(TeX, PostScript, ASCII, HTML) and Wiley would publish
it in its raw form?

This strategy has been enormously popular with Matt Welsh's book on Linux.

WPN

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