On Friday 24 February 2006 5:21 am, Kevanf1 wrote:
I personally welcome the opportunity to review the work myself rather than reading about it from somebody else. So often I find a third party review is totally opposite to what I think of a publication.
That said, I do also accept that it is illegal to put up a copyrighted work like that. Sorry, I'm torn in two by this one. Perhaps it would be better to be legally able to put parts of the various chapters online so that we can judge for ourselves whether they are worthwhile buying. I know that some publishing houses already do this as do some private authors.
At the end of the day I do prefer a solid hard caopy. This is turning into the debate about the officail SuSE manuals :-) I don't think many people are going to be wanting to trawl all through the pdf file and read the information off screen or, indeed, print out the whole of the book themselves. I think it is more likely to encourage people to go out and buy the book.
Kevan Farmer
FYI to everyone: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471754889.html is the home page for the book. You may notice the e-book download available at the same price as the paper book. You may notice sample chapters available for free. So that link to the PDF _is_ an illegal distribution of a copyrighted work. Stan