Hi jimmie

We understood correctly your question and suggestion. This is just  
that we are all running out of time.

On 17 sept. 07, at 08:16, Jimmie Houchin wrote:

> Blake wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:43:22 -0700, Jimmie Houchin  
>> <j.squeak at cyberhaus.us> wrote:
>>> Do the proceeds from the print books (or PDF) go to the authors  
>>> or to Squeak Foundation, ESUG, university,...? I don't really  
>>> know if there is much after the printing to go anywhere? If it  
>>> goes to the Squeak Foundation or something it would be nice to  
>>> know. Put that information on the book's pages. It might help  
>>> with print sales.
>> I suppose I'm biased, but I'm happy to see the proceeds go to the  
>> authors.
>
> I have absolutely no problem with proceeds going to the authors. I  
> like authors being blessed. They've put in a lot of work and  
> deserve to be rewarded for their labors.
>
> So my apologies if I gave any other impression. But the word  
> contribution is used in reference to paying for the PDF. So it  
> somewhat brings a different thought to what the money is going  
> towards.
>
> If the contribution is going to honor and bless the labors of the  
> authors, that is great. No problem. The laborer is worthy of his  
> hire. But if it is going to an organization, it would be nice to  
> know what organization. Possibly the Square Bracket Association and  
> the funding of more Squeak, Smalltalk books.
>
> Personally, I would love to see more people making good livings  
> with Squeak.

Me too. This is our goal to make squeak a cool system to build  
applications and the future.
However we did not write this book for making money
>
> Anyway, I am very grateful for this resource. May it bless its  
> authors immensely even if not from the profits of the book. May the  
> Squeak community be blessed by this effort and may it bear much fruit.

Now if the squeak community wants to make this book a success this  
will be great.
This is always better to write on our cv that our own published book  
sold a lot :)

Stef

>
> Again, thanks.
>
> Jimmie
>
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