When's the Rest of Dan's Book Due?

[Till Bandi]

can you tell us when "next week" will be – or did I miss your 
announcement?

Till


Am 06.02.2004 um 17:41 schrieb Dan Shafer:

> During MacWorld SF in January -- at which every copy of my book that 
> Rev could get to the show was sold by the third day -- Kevin and I 
> discussed the publishing plan going forward. I had been studying the 
> relatively recent development over at Adam Angst's TidBits operation 
> with some interest. (FYI, if you don't know it, they are publishing 
> small books focused on a single topic at $5 each and delivering in PDF 
> format.)
>
> Kevin and I liked that concept a lot. And as you probably know I had 
> already anticipated releasing chapters of my book to those who joined 
> RevolutionPros.com at the Leader ($197) level prior to publication and 
> free anyway.
>
> So what we've decided to do is to release the chapters of Volumes 2 
> and 3 incrementally. As I finish a chapter in draft, it will go to 
> those who are Leader level members of my online community. They'll 
> give me some feedback (hopefully) and then I'll do a final version and 
> release it for sale at something in the $5 per chapter neighborhood. 
> My plan is to release a chapter about every week or so, sometimes two 
> in a week.
>
> Then when we have a full book-sized collection of chapters, we'll 
> combine them into an immediately available PDF and Kevin will take 
> them to print for distribution in hard copy format.
>
> This means you can buy only the chapters in which you are interested, 
> when you are interested in them. Whether you buy the full book 
> collection or not is up to you (unless, again, you are a Leader member 
> in RevolutionPros.com, in which case you get it free anyway).
>
> Furthermore, I'm going to let the community help me decide the *order* 
> in which to release the chapters. I'll be posting a complete list of 
> the subjects on RevPros some time this weekend and allowing members 
> there to vote for which ones they'd like to see sooner than later. 
> I'll focus on those that get the biggest response *except* where I 
> know something about a future Rev development or a third-party product 
> that could change the chapter substantially.
>
> So to recap: chapter-by-chapter electronic releases first to my 
> community, then to the community at large; books accumulated when 
> critical mass dictates and released first electronically and then in 
> print; order of things determined in large part by community voting.
>
> First chapter for Volume 2 -- which will cover CGI development and use 
> -- next week.
>
> Don't just sit there, revolt!
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dan Shafer, Revolutionary
> Author of  "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought"
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