Re: Postgres Printed Manuals - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Postgres Printed Manuals
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In response to Re: Postgres Printed Manuals  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: Postgres Printed Manuals
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On May 13, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> It's hard to make any money that way :-(.  Rich Morin used to run a
> business called "Prime Time Freeware" that published hardcopy versions
> of our manuals along with much other open-source documentation.
> He gave up on it some years ago, though, and I doubt that the market
> has improved.

Seems like an ideal use of those print-on-demand services like
lulu.com among others.  The project could post an official PDF of the
docs, and take a cut every time someone ordered a printed copy.  The
question is who would take the time to make a professional looking PDF.


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