John M McIntosh wrote:
> On 8-Aug-09, at 7:20 PM, Lawson English wrote:
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>> John have you considered cashing in on the iPhone craze by writing a 
>> book on how to program the iphone using Squeak?
>> L
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> Ah, my friends who write books tell me it's a tedious process and 
> generally results in zero or negative income.
> There are a few I know who have been wildly successful, but I"m afraid 
> the topic won't sell much copy.
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> However I will talk about the process at ESUG in Sept, 
> http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2009/Current+List+of+Talks/Smalltalk+on+iPhone 
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> and again at the XTC group in London the week after 
> http://xpday-london.editme.com/eXtremeTuesdayClub
>
>

Well, not being an author myself, I can't respond to that directly, but 
I know that there are more reasons for writing books than simply cash 
profit, though my choice of words above probably obscured that point.


L

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