TeX, LaTeX and Friends

^^^ more people need to know about this

@StefanKottwitz (and everyone): ... I now have a "meta-meta" question: would it be appropriate to post an announcement about this "free only today" in meta.tex.stackexchange.com ?

@ricmarques sure

@StefanKottwitz: Great, thanks! :-) Would you like to write that post, or do you prefer that someone else does it?

12:10 AM

@ricmarques @StefanKottwitz I considered it too – but I don't think it would be appropriate

The Meta site isn't a community mailer

@SeanAllred: Right, I have doubts about if that's appropriate ... That's why I said that I have a "meta-meta question" regarding that :-)

@ricmarques XD asking never hurts

@SeanAllred A book by a site moderator could be a site related meta post

@StefanKottwitz That's really stretching it, in my honest opinion

@StefanKottwitz it's feasible that you won't have time to be moderator next year, at which time the reasoning would be outdated

still…

Could write up a blog post about it really quick?

On the TeX.SX blog?

@PauloCereda ^^^ ?

(you're the only one I remember being involved with the blog)

@SeanAllred: +1 for creating the blog post ...

12:14 AM

@SeanAllred outdated posts can be deleted or closed

I guess one way of posting the announcement would be to post a "Meta question" asking: "What would be good ways to promote the free availability during 4-mar-2015 of Latex Beginner's Guide?" ;-)

just writing something up ...

Canageek

@ricmarques Can you link me to that?

Torbjørn T.

@Canageek This one? packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

so one post at latex-community.org frontpage now

Canageek

12:17 AM

@TorbjørnT. Thanks

Gonzalo Medina

@StefanKottwitz are there any restrictions on distributing copies once the file has been downloaded?

@Canageek As @TorbjørnT. has just posted. The link is packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning I don't know if it's "time-zone dependent" (for me this book there appeared as the clock turned mid-night here in Lisbon, Portugal)

@GonzaloMedina As with any copyrighted ebook you buy and the publisher owns rights

@GonzaloMedina Besides, a secondary goal in this promotion (as I understand it) is to indicate commercial interest in the topic for a second edition.

@GonzaloMedina The publisher wants to get new customers, people to register and possibly by other things, not giving rights away

@GonzaloMedina better tell people to download than to produce copies

12:21 AM

yup yup.

@StefanKottwitz Right. And I saw now that the book does include the warning "All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews." in the first page .

@ricmarques putting on my legally-informed hat: we are now technically bound to keep the ebook in RAM :)

@ricmarques We are bound by that. But today we are free to tell anybody to get it for free :-) I will make a blog post

@SeanAllred stream it ;-)

@SeanAllred LOL ! :)

Gonzalo Medina

@StefanKottwitz Yes. I'll do that. Thanks for the heads up about the promotion!