From: Sergei Dolmatov <sergei@...>
Date: 2002-01-11T12:30:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby books

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:18:17PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@rubyxml.com> writes:
> 
> > > From: Markus Jais [mailto:mjais@web.de]
> > > 
> > > this is sort of strange, I think. why do the publisher not inform
> > > the authors when they translate their books??
> > > maybe only addison-wesley knows :-)
> > 
> > Wouldn't they need to tell you that you were getting additional royalties?
> > Do addison-wesley  royalty checks show the source of the sales?
> 
> International sales take forever to appear on royalty
> statements. Pragprog was a top-1000 book in Japan for a year, and it
> never appeared on our statements. In the end I phoned them up, and
> they chased it manually through the reporting system.
> 
> I just heard that there will be a Russian version of Pragmatic
> Programmer too, though. That's pretty cool.

Wow! Could you tell more about russian version?..

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Regards,
Sergei Dolmatov.