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Prentice Hall To Publish Open Content Licensed Books

Posted by timothy on from the you-can-call-him-bruce dept.

lma writes "Bruce Perens has convinced Prentice Hall to publish a series of books under an Open Source license. The 'Bruce Perens' Open Source Series' will be available first as hardcopy in bookstores, and the Open Source text will be available electronically a few months later. Prentice Hall is counting on people buying the books even though the electronic version will be freely available later. I like the model, since I prefer to read paper, but like the electronic version for reference."

3 of 239 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Oreilly / MySQL Reference Manual by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I don't want to diminish O'Reilly's efforts, they did the original Open Sources book mostly in Open Source, and a number of others, and some other publishers have as well (about my favorite is the Ruby book). But Prentice Hall is the largest technical book publisher in the world.

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.
  2. Re:My prediction... by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Let's give them a run for their money :-) To do that, we need to make this a big bookshelf. Want to write something? I need authors. It won't make you rich, but it will do good for both you and the world.

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.
  3. Re:My prediction... by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Mostly I am looking for user or developer documentation for Free Software. I would hope that I'll get some of the software authors, but I recognize that many of them would rather code. Note also that writing a book does not make you wealthy (me neither). It doesn't pay as well as consulting. On the other hand, if you aren't working anyway... The benefit of writing a book is that you are valued more as an employee, consultant, or scholar. You know the cliche: He wrote the book about it!

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.