From: "Wayne E. Seguin" <wayneeseguin@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T10:18:42+09:00
Subject: Re: considering writing a book on Ruby/Rails?

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I also would like to see more non-trivial books.
<vent>
The only real irritation which I have run into is when I purchased the new
jQuery book, the pdf version does not allow copying and pasting. What they
did I consider a horrible thing which made me want to post my copy to as
many places on the internet I could with the password to read it (no, I
actually didn't but I did consider it...).

I had purchased the PDF for the explicit purpose of copying and pasting the
examples and playing around with jQuery during my 7 hour car trip to Ruby
East. (Yes I realized afterwards that you can download sample code but that
is beside my point, and it did not help me during the trip.)
</vent>

Moral: If you are going to write a book and publish a PDF copy, follow the
Pragmatic Programmers and Oreilly's leads, they do a fine job.

  ~Wayne

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