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I respect the "If you don't have enough money for this, I will give it to you for free" notion. However, given that that policy should totally resolve all of y
by patio11 14y ago
I respect the "If you don't have enough money for this, I will give it to you for free" notion. However, given that that policy should totally resolve all of your moral qualms about charging proper prices, this should probably cost $25 ~ $50, which will a) compensate the author better, b) underwrite more giveaways (either of this book or of other projects), and c) ensure that among purchasers of the book it gets treated as a valuable resource rather than as a disposable impulse-buy. (You can add to this the somewhat shocking observation that you may actually sell more copies.)
- rdegges 14y agoI completely understand this, and believe it to be true. My motivation for writing the book was primarily to get the information out there. I really love the Heroku platform, and would like to spread the knowledge around as much as possible. Charging for this book was really a way for me to recover a tiny amount of my time back, I have no intentions of really turning a profit from this. After some feedback I set the pricing to be variable (5$+), and I've been giving away free copies to anyone who asked. So far, the project has been a success (in my mind): over 600 copies distributed total, which means a large amount of users get to (hopefully) make use of the information :)
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