discuss: ISBN numbers for LDP docs?
Subject:
Re: ISBN numbers for LDP docs?
From:
"Guru -" ####@####.####
Date:
18 Jan 2004 07:02:38 -0000
Message-Id: <Sea2-F13bB8qrkgCeR90001d413@hotmail.com>
Hi,
So exactly what was wrong with the ISBN idea?
The problem appeared to be money, quoting Tille, ">In Belgium it's only a
couple of euro/dollar cents. >In Sweden, it is free.", "I was going to
suggest that my company pays for the cost of
>registering the ISBN numbers (both cost of time and cost of money)",
>therefore the problem is not with money.
So why not go ahead with the ISBN number idea? Wouldn't it help?
Or does it conflict with the traditional printed approach of ISBN
numbers?...
Regards,
Gareth
>From: Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
>To: ####@####.####
>Subject: Re: ISBN numbers for LDP docs?
>Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:00:04 -0600 (CST)
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>On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
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> > --->[Quoting Owen ####@####.####
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> > > Don't know about your countr(y/ies) but ISBN numbers cost
> > > money here in au
> >
> > Yeah, but how much?
>
>In Belgium it's only a couple of euro/dollar cents.
>In Sweden, it is free.
>
>OK it is for printed matter, these ISBN numbers. I have here before me
>"Linux Undercover", subtitled "Linux Secrets as reveiled by the Linux
>Documentation Project" (that's us), a 2000+ page book which is really only
>a printout of our docs. This has an ISBN number.
>
>So printing out HOWTO's and guides and publishing them is not unheard of -
>as argued by a.o. ESR, we should try to make money with our work. This is
>one way. I was going to suggest that my company pays for the cost of
>registering the ISBN numbers (both cost of time and cost of money), but
>seeing the lack of interest, the fear for administrative overhead, and
>the bluntness with which some people express this, I'll just go and
>register my own docs and not botter TLDP with it.
>I'll also burry the idea for an ISSN number for our weekly news.
>
>Tille.
>
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>My Penguin, my freedom. http://tille.soti.org
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