The Pod-turned-HTML version of the book that I'm working on will remain online (and I will continue to update it) until it is requested by Manning that public display of the content be stopped. ;)

Coincidently, this morning I saw these comments made by Tim O'Reilly at Nature's web site regarding the future of e-publishing and the like. One thing that he comments on is that while early on in ORA publishing, when the text for the books were available both on line and as well as in print, competitors would print out their own copies of these texts and sell them, in more recent years the value-added benefits of ORA publishing have caused many of these other publishers to avoid this practice, so that the text of the books can remain online while the book is in print.

Now, I've had previous experience with Manning, and they're getting better in improving what their publishing brings to adding value (in other words, generally much better than a lot of other computer book publishers, though not quite at ORA's level), but I would suspect that either Manning will begin to follow ORA's lead in this area, or that you could easily argue O'Reilly's point to Manning should the need arise.

IMO if you can provide me a print version that is easily 'pick up and read at any point', as well as a online version that is indexed, searchable, and enhanced in any way, you've got me sold twice.

Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com || "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain

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