From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/88165 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerben Wierda Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: State of documentation of ConTeXt? 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BTW, as I have become a publisher in recent years I know now what to do, = I can maybe help by acting as the publisher for the book. If an author = of a group of authors can write a manuscript, I would be happy to fund = the production of the book and host the sales of a PDF version (see = http://bit.ly/1iNacG8 for how selling both print and PDF would work). If money is needed in advance for authors so they can live while = writing, we could crowdsource that and repay the investors form the = proceeds of the book. When the investment has been paid back, we could = distribute the PDF for free or use the proceeds to fund updates and = such. G --Apple-Mail=_D3DF6353-3C73-48D4-B15F-2C3040491EAF Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 On 20 = Jul 2014, at 14:14, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> = wrote:

I = would gladly donate in a crowdfunding initiative for a good book. But = how much is needed to make it = happen?

BTW, as I have become a = publisher in recent years I know now what to do, I can maybe help by = acting as the publisher for the book. If an author of a group of authors = can write a manuscript, I would be happy to fund the production of the = book and host the sales of a PDF version (see http://bit.ly/1iNacG8 for how selling = both print and PDF would work).

If money is = needed in advance for authors so they can live while writing, we could = crowdsource that and repay the investors form the proceeds of the book. = When the investment has been paid back, we could distribute the PDF for = free or use the proceeds to fund updates and = such.

G

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