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note->john athrone [message #51090] Tue, 12 April 2005 07:45 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: rakedash.in.ibm.com

please notice that eclipse faq-304 is having some problem please do
something at the earliest.

i have stipulated time for my project in markers.
Re: note->john athrone [message #51228 is a reply to message #51090] Tue, 12 April 2005 16:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: SamMesh.gmail.com

Rakesh,

Please note that Eclipse FAQ is not totally free.
You can buy it.

From http://www.eclipsefaq.org/chris/faq/html/faq306.html
> This FAQ is only answered in the book copy of the Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs.
>
> If you prefer browsing your FAQs electronically, buy the book.
> It includes a CD-ROM with the entire book written as a plug-in to the Eclipse help system.
> You can preview all the FAQs in Chapter 1, 2, and 5.


Rakesh wrote:

> please notice that eclipse faq-304 is having some problem please do
> something at the earliest.
>
> i have stipulated time for my project in markers.
Re: note->john arthorne [message #51280 is a reply to message #51090] Tue, 12 April 2005 18:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: john.eclipsefaq.org

Rakesh wrote:
> please notice that eclipse faq-304 is having some problem please do
> something at the earliest.
>
> i have stipulated time for my project in markers.

Sorry about that. The web site was intended as a supplement to the
paper version of the book. Unfortunately we discovered that our
eclipsefaq.org web site traffic was tremendous, but book sales were not
so good. The number of unique visitors to the site each week was much
greater than the total number of people who bought the book in 2004. We
decided to remove most of the free content, leaving only three free
chapters as a preview. On the bright side, we got rid of the annoying
popup messages that used to appear after every five FAQs viewed. Alas,
it is not easy to make money on open source!
--
Re: note->john athrone [message #51361 is a reply to message #51090] Tue, 12 April 2005 21:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Chris_Laffra.ca.ibm.com

Amazon has a great deal on the book:

List Price: $34.99
Price: $23.09
You Save: $11.90 (34%)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321268385

Why did we remove the free preview FAQs from our website?

We had >20,000 visitors during March. We tried making money on the site
using Google Ads, but no one clicked on any of them. We made $3 in total,
but Google won't pay until you make at least $100. We just renewed the
website's lease which costs us (the authors) about 5% of our revenue on the
book. We received our first statement from our publisher. The short
conclusion is that we owe them money!

Unless more people start buying copies online or in a bookstore, we really
cannot afford putting the FAQs up for free anymore. We spent many, many long
nights and weekends on this project. I hope you understand our motives.

In short, don't ever write a technical book thinking it will make you rich
:-), unless it is the next "Design Patterns".

I just noticed you work for IBM. If only you and all your IBM colleagues
reading this post order a copy, we could open up the website again :-)
Namely, the majority of access to our website is directly from IBM domains.

--
Chris Laffra, http://eclipsefaq.org


"Rakesh" <rakedash@in.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:07c4c9c540ba4c76951c262d937aeef8$1@www.eclipse.org...
> please notice that eclipse faq-304 is having some problem please do
> something at the earliest.
>
> i have stipulated time for my project in markers.
>
>
>
Re: note->john athrone [message #51389 is a reply to message #51361] Tue, 12 April 2005 22:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: manahan.NOSPAM.ca.ibm.com

Its definiately worth the price. I particularly like the addition of the
faq's to the help content. If I may make a request that the articles be
added as help content as well? In case there is a FAQ's 3.1 :-)

Peter

Chris Laffra wrote:
> Amazon has a great deal on the book:
>
> List Price: $34.99
> Price: $23.09
> You Save: $11.90 (34%)
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321268385
>
> Why did we remove the free preview FAQs from our website?
>
> We had >20,000 visitors during March. We tried making money on the site
> using Google Ads, but no one clicked on any of them. We made $3 in total,
> but Google won't pay until you make at least $100. We just renewed the
> website's lease which costs us (the authors) about 5% of our revenue on the
> book. We received our first statement from our publisher. The short
> conclusion is that we owe them money!
>
> Unless more people start buying copies online or in a bookstore, we really
> cannot afford putting the FAQs up for free anymore. We spent many, many long
> nights and weekends on this project. I hope you understand our motives.
>
> In short, don't ever write a technical book thinking it will make you rich
> :-), unless it is the next "Design Patterns".
>
> I just noticed you work for IBM. If only you and all your IBM colleagues
> reading this post order a copy, we could open up the website again :-)
> Namely, the majority of access to our website is directly from IBM domains.
>
Re: note->john athrone [message #51445 is a reply to message #51389] Tue, 12 April 2005 23:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: Chris_Laffra.ca.ibm.com

"Peter Manahan" <manahan@NOSPAM.ca.ibm.com> wrote
> If I may make a request that the articles be
> added as help content as well?

This is simple.
1. Visit each article and do "Save as...".
2. Write a plugin with a toc.xml that links to each html file.
3. Export.

--
Chris Laffra, http://eclipsefaq.org
Re: note->john athrone [message #51846 is a reply to message #51445] Wed, 13 April 2005 18:25 Go to previous message
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Originally posted by: SamMesh.gmail.com

Chris Laffra wrote:
> 1. Visit each article and do "Save as...".

From the Google's cache for free? :)

--
Sam Mesh
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