Re:Reverse engineering yet another eBook format
by ta988 on Monday December 26, 2022 @09:27AM
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If your students get it for free why not make it open access on wikibooks or something like that? The only reason people in academia were publishing the books as books was for resume stuffing but that was a different domain.
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Re:Reverse engineering yet another eBook format
by riedel on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:07AM
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Actually resume stuffing was the major reason (not to get a job but rather for positioning oneself). I wrote it in my free time actually (my income on the book is about a 10th of the time put into it). That it is free to the students is just a nice side effect. The target audience is decision makers in smaller companies. You do not reach them via wikibooks. I guess I would have never written it as open access, because in this case I would have left it to others.
I would like to see a peer review/editing community for wikibooks btw, that actually would lead to better quality of books. distill.pub eg IMHO is great.