Python 3 Patterns, Recipes and Idioms, Release 1.0
specify that anything you think of or create at any time of day or night belongs
to the company).
5.4 The Printed Book
Because of the creative commons license, the electronic version of the book as
well as all the sources are available, can be reproduced on other web sites, etc.
(again, as long as you attribute it).
You can print your own version of the book. I will be creating a printed version
of the book for sale, with a nice cover and binding. Many people do like to have
a print version of the book, and part of the motivation for doing a print version
is to make some income off the effort I put into the book.
But buying my particular print version of the book is optional. All of the tools
will be downloadable so that you can print it yourself, or send it to a copy shop
and have it bound, etc. The only thing you won’t get is my cover and binding.
5.5 Translations
Launchpad.net, where this project is hosted, has support for doing translations
and this gave me an idea. I had just come back from speaking at the Python
conference in Brazil, and was thinking about the user group there and how I
might support them. (We had done a seminar while I was there in order to help
pay for my trip and support the organization).
If the book can be kept in a Sphinx restructured text format that can be turned
directly into camera-ready PDF (the basic form is there but it will take somebody
messing about with it to get it into camera-ready layout), then the job of transla-
tion can be kept to something that could be done by user groups during sprints.
The user group could then use a print-on-demand service to print the book, and
get the group members to take them to local bookstores and do other kinds of
promotions. The profits from the book could go to the user group (who knows,
just like the Brazillian group, your group may end up using some of those profits
to bring me to speak at your conference!).
If possible, I would like a royalty from these translations. To me, 5% of the cover
price sounds reasonable. If the user group would like to use my cover, then they
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