Cyndie,
If you could simply make postscript versions of the RedBooks available
on the FTP server, that would reduce the cost to your customers. I suspect
that the prices you charge for RedBooks are simply to recover printing
and distribution costs. Some of the RedBooks are actually available on
a CD-ROM that IBM distributes for free to prospective customers. I don't
think the most recent RedBooks are on that CD-ROM, but the precedent of
distributing them for free has already been set.
..Paul
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On Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:13:31 EST Cyndie Behrens said:
On Mon, 19 Feb 1996 16:13:31 EST Cyndie Behrens said:
>I understand your comment about prices for redbooks. The redbooks are
>meant to supplement the regular product publications, so theorectically
>we shouldn't need redbooks. But since we typically write the books with
>real field folks and customers, they tend to have a more customer-oriented
>perspective, and we also can write them after a product is available, so
>real-live experiences can be published. The regular product manuals have
>to be ready months before a product GAs, so they aren't often able to put
>real experiences in the books. The real answer is for the product to be
>so easy to use, that you don't need manuals at all; but since we are
>living in reality.....
>Cyndie Behrens
>IBM - ITSO San Jose
>cbehrens AT vnet.ibm DOT com
>
>QUIT
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