Jonathon Blake wrote:

>
> On 8/30/05, i18n@... wrote:
>
> >Peter wrote:
> >> That would be nice indeed, but OUP would have no interest in giving
> up a book that continues to sell regularly.
> >
> > Hard to say - If Adobe/O'Reilly together felt it was worth it to them (and they might) I am sure they could make an attractive offer to your current publisher.
>
> a) I doubt that Adobe/O'Reilly could recoup the cost of the offer
> within five years. [O'Reilly has a policy of flipping all books to a
> CC 2.0 Licence five years after publication.]
>
> b) I don't know what sort of royalty arrangement Peter has, but I
> expect that financially, it is much better than any royalty
> arrangement that involves the CC 2.0 Licence.

I don't know what a CC 2.0 License is (that you spell it in Brit
suggests it might not be an American phenomenon at all), but keep in
mind that there are two co-editors who split the royalty.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...