Re: Books, the lulu.com scam - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tim Landscheidt
Subject Re: Books, the lulu.com scam
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Msg-id m3ocmvjz6b.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de
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In response to Books  (Thomas Løcke <thomas.granvej6@gmail.com>)
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Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> wrote:

>> So I bought this "book" thinking it was a PDF file which I am fine with.

>> Its not. They download an .acsm file that will only work with their
>> proprietary Windoze software.

>> I am really angry with lulu.com about this.

> I'm not sure I understand the purpose of them providing an electronic
> book copy of the PostgreSQL documentation since it's already available
> as both a PDF (A4 and US) and Windows help file (CHM) for free:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/

Apparently, you can make money out of it.

Tim

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