Writing a book about your research is basically expected in most academic fields. Engineering is no different. Would you be mad at Thrun for publishing and pro

Writing a book about your research is basically expected in most academic fields. Engineering is no different. Would you be mad at Thrun for publishing and profiting from Probablistic Robotics while publishing academic papers on the same subject? I wasn't. Though le valle's "Planning Algorithms" was released free and has arguably done better, that model is not the state of the art in most academic publishing.