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<div>What about the money for Simon St. Laurent? - Let's
assume that you</div>
<div>thought 25$ was a fair amount to pay for Francesco and
Simmons first </div>
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Erlang book - would you pay equal amounts to Francesco and
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<div>But wait a moment their editor who I think was Simon St
Laurent</div>
<div>will have made significant contributions to the book -
should his contribution</div>
<div>be unpaid and unrecognised?</div>
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Simon did not edit that one, but he did edit my Erlang book, as well
as writing one on his own (and editing a bunch of other FP Books).
It took many hours of work from him and others at O'Reilly to do
this, this is what they are for. <br>
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Also I did not get an advance on that book, so I got nothing until
it started to sell. Yes If I had self published I would have gotten
a bigger percent, but really there are a million details from
finding an editor to cover art and distribution that I really did
not want to deal with<br>
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--Zach<br>
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Zachary Kessin<br>
<a href="http://mostlyerlang.com">Mostly Erlang Podcast</a><br>
Skype: zachkessin<br>
Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/zkessin">@zkessin</a>
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