[Seaside] Seaside books

[Victor]

My totally unscientific and subjective impression is that the 
probabilities to cut a good deal with a publisher are increased after 
somebody has published in the internet. This belongs in the set of 
theories yet to be proven.

Victor

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Conrad Taylor wrote:
> Hey Roger, I agree with you 100% because I have been introduced many 
> technologies by simply going to the bookstore.
> 
> -Conrad
> 
> On 10/16/07, *Roger Whitney* <whitney at cs.sdsu.edu 
> <mailto:whitney at cs.sdsu.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Autopublishing has advantages, but publishing via traditional means
>     also have advantages. Besides having an editor having a Seaside book
>     in the shelves of bookstores would improve Seaside's visibility.
> 
>     On Oct 16, 2007, at 5:11 AM, Blake wrote:
> 
>      > Damn. Sent this to the generl purpose list by mistake.
>      >
>      > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:01:58 -0700, Victor
>     <vmgoldberg at verizon.net <mailto:vmgoldberg at verizon.net>>
>      > wrote:
>      >
>      >> You could be your own publisher, in the internet.  Use Seaside to
>      >> build a publishing site.  :-)
>      >
>      > Well, publishing in the traditional sense requires many people and
>      > also
>      > some dead trees.<s>
>      >
>      > (Actually, going through the laser game tutorial has given me a
>      > number of
>      > ideas as how traditional Squeak could be improved with some
>      > manual-building tools. But that's a separate issue.)
>      >
>      >> If you build a neat site, that could be good selling point.
>      >>
>      >> Autopublishing in the internet has the advantage of removing the
>      >> middleman and everybody else benefits.
>      >
>      > I'm all for it. And as Conrad points out there's Lulu. I would
>      > probably be
>      > uncomfortable releasing a book that didn't have a number of editors
>      > besides myself. (Three is good: One general editor, one very good
>      > language
>      > person, and one tech person.) If I self-publish I have to find (and
>      > pay!)
>      > those people myself. A good editor is worth her weight in gold.
>      > (And I use
>      > "her" here because the best editors I've had have been women.)
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>     State University
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