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in thread Shell style line-editing without benefit of CPAN modules

Hehe, tried to rip me off first eh? :) Now, tell me, why is it free and not? Guess it's getting little old...
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Re^9: Shell style line-editing without benefit of CPAN modules
by samtregar (Abbot) on Feb 05, 2007 at 18:13 UTC
    Hmmm, hard question to answer - I guess you'd have to ask the people at Apress. They asked me if I wanted it to be available for free when it was just about out of print. I figured it was a good way to reach more readers and it's not like it was a huge money-maker to begin with! I imagine they look at it as a way to gain some good-will from the community and hopefully turn a bad situation (the book wasn't a huge success financially) into something good.

    -sam

      Sorry to hear about the not so huge success financially...