[Asterisk-Users] FINALLY! a good book about Asterisk.

Kevin Walsh kevin at cursor.biz
Fri Jul 9 14:03:27 MST 2004


Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy [dwelch at phoneboy.com] wrote:
> > > In my experience, the royalty is 10 to 15% of the *wholesale* price,
> > > which means it's more like two to three bucks a book. Trust me, unless
> > > you're Stephen King, John Grisham, or someone like that, you don't
> > > make all that much writing books (at least directly).
> > > 
> > All the more reason for the author to consider OpenDoc publishing.
> >
> At the time I started the first book (which technically, someone else
> started, I ended up taking over), I don't think that was an option. By
> the second book (which was just an update of the first), I couldn't do
> OpenDoc because I was basically under contract with the publisher.
> 
That's fair enough.  I thought I'd point it out because a lot of people
are not aware of OpenDoc publishing.  Future authors (those not under
contract) should take a serious look.

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