Greetings,

I am in the process of trying to find a way to have a book printed of the FPC manuals. As you are well aware there is already a German translation of the manual in book form. The next step was to find a publisher to make an English version.

It has not gone well. One publisher was hot an heavy to do it but during a review board session it was rejected. The main reason for rejecting it was because a version of the manual is already available online. They felt that people would just download and print their own copy of the manual. In my opinion that is nuts given the fact that the manuals consist of 717 pages. I am not about to print that out myself. Currently there is still one publisher reviewing it but I am not counting on that one.

So one of the next things I am researching is to self publish the book. This will mean that I will fund the actual printing of the book and then market the book to bookstores and places like Amazon. We would also sell it from both the FPC and Lazarus web sites.

Before I leap into such an expenditure I would like to know how many people would purchase the FPC manuals in English in printed form.

Please respond if you would like the book or if you would never purchase it. No firm price has been set since it will depend on what it costs me to actually produce the book. However I suspect that it would be in the range of $39-$59 US.

Instead of responding to this mailing list with your answer please send your answer directly to me.

If you would buy a copy of the book select this link

If you would NOT buy a copy select this link

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