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>Versioning changes often as well as new features and revisions of old ones.
>Also, compilation issues always change from release to release. For a
>publishing company it would be expensive to constantly put out a book for
>each version that entails everything. Plus, consumers really don't want to
>keep buying the same material over and over again.
For publishers new versions mean new profits so they would most likely just
keep the status quo.
>For prohjects such as this that have commercial documentation, why don't
>they have "patches" for printed books also?
Have the book in a three ring binder. With each version sell new "pages" or
"chapters" or both. This way the user removes chapter X and reinserts the
new updates chapter X.
Here is another idea have the book in a CVS like software. This way just
like software the documentation can be worked on by many people, some
people have write access and get to approve and proofread before it gets
posted. Everybody can just grab the latest snapshot of the doc.
:wq
Tim Uckun
Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/ Americas Background
Investigation Expert.
If your company isn't doing background checks, maybe you haven't considered
the risks of a bad hire.
