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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
about I/O disciplines and I should retire to the Tassili-in-Aijer
mountains in Sahara as a camel herder :-)
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The sad case for technical writing (Score:2)
Also consider that the typical royalty contract puts 10% of the wholesale cost of the book into the collective author's hands, and a lot of books are co-written. Yes, I make about a dollar, pre-tax, per copy of the Llama. That's it. Put another way, I make more money off my amazon referral of the llama [stonehenge.com] than I make off the actual book sale as an author.
So, why write? I write as a credential. The books have earned me a foothold into corporate america for my training and consulting services.
That, and I get a lot of free beer from loyal fans, which I appreciate greatly.
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