Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / April 2005

My apologies, my antecedent wasn't clear -- an ebook on a.s. :->
AppleScript Studio.

And I should have said, 'so you don't have the expense of a publisher and
all that entails.' While paper and glue may be of little expense, I'm
guessing that the publisher has to make quite a bit of money from each
physical title to recoup it's expenses of printing, binding, shipping,
storage, returns, salaries, rent, and on and on. Doing a self-published
ebook or whatever you want to call it could make a small "press run"
profitable. Especially if the book is available for download online instead
of the author having to send out CDs or paper prints. I've never done it
myself, but I have friends who've self-published bound books, and they
enjoyed the whole shebang -- although they weren't in it for the money,
which makes a _huge_ difference. (I've never asked if they made money on
their books.)

Whatever. I'm still looking for some tutorial other than Apple's on
a.s. Apple seems to have a theory that to understand any one particular
chapter of any of their materials, one must have read and understood all
other chapters in their materials. Generally, I find that having a couple
of different authors explaining things from their different perspectives is
most helpful.

No it isn't; it's a print book, from O'Reilly - see my .sig. I've
thought of doing the AppleScript Studio book as an ebook but it seems to
me that it would be too large and technical for that to a comfortable
venue. I really like having a printed, bound book in my hands, like an
O'Reilly book; something I can study in my off hours, write in the
margins, and so forth. m.

That's the nub of it, I guess.  Anybody who *really* wants a certain
variety of information or knowledge is the kind of person who can find
it and wrestle it to the mat on their own.