If you think $100 dollars for a PDF is unreasonable...

[Eva of Sirrion]

You ain't seen nothin' yet!

I know it's a technical book with only limited readership, but this is Nuts!

 

[Crothian]

I'm also guessing there is nothing else you can turn to for the information. When you are the only show in town, you get to set the price. Also, I imagine schools and businesses end up floating the bill for many of these. Easy to charge a coperation this kind of money then an individual.

And finally, there was no $100 PDF that people were expected to buy.

 

[Henry]

I'm also guessing there is nothing else you can turn to for the information. When you are the only show in town, you get to set the price. Also, I imagine schools and businesses end up floating the bill for many of these. Easy to charge a coperation this kind of money then an individual.

And finally, there was no $100 PDF that people were expected to buy.

At work I regularly buy equipment cables that cost someone $10.00 to put together for $130.00. Why? Because (A) I don't have to do it myself, (B) I don't have to test it after building it, and (C) the amount of time it would take me to source out and find the appropriate adapters, proper gauge of wire, etc. is worth more than spending that time to create cables that will need to be replaced in 6 months anyway. It's more about time and materials and name-branding than about actual value. If my sole job were those cables, I'd do it differently.

 

[Bryon_Soulweaver]

Says $675 now.

 

[Crothian]

Says $675 now.

that's what it has always said

 

[gray stranger]

675 / 145 = 4.66 dollars per page

that's alot of money

 

[Psionicist]

Thats nothing! The only detailed book/documentation for writing windows file system drivers costs $95 000. This is extremely annoying because I have a very cool program idea I want to create but you can't just write a file system without some kind of documentation.

 

[gray stranger]

Thats nothing! The only detailed book/documentation for writing windows file system drivers costs $95 000. This is extremely annoying because I have a very cool program idea I want to create but you can't just write a file system without some kind of documentation.

Wow that kinda sucks

EDIT: I wonder how much pages that book is so I can calculate the cost per page

 

[astralpwka]

Thats nothing! The only detailed book/documentation for writing windows file system drivers costs $95 000. This is extremely annoying because I have a very cool program idea I want to create but you can't just write a file system without some kind of documentation.

I bet that's a book nobody's pirated on emule yet.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I bet that's a book nobody's pirated on emule yet.

Who knows....?

I guess if I was an engineer who made buttloads of money, it wouldn't be so bad.....