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> [Tim Bray:]
>
> [... good stuff that I completely agree with ...]
>
> | 4. A couple of people made the excellent point that it's tough to
> | produce a book on one of these specs in a timely and accurate fashion
> | if you're not inside the process. It seems to me that it would be of
> | huge benefit for the W3C if such books were easier to produce. It
> | might make all sorts of sense for the W3C to have "writers'
> | memberships" - non-speaking access to the materials of one activity or
> | another. Such memberships wouldn't be free, a cost of perhaps $500 or
> | so would bring it well within the bounds of a book-publishing budget
> | while discouraging frivolity.
>
> I think that's a really excellent suggestion. And the cost should
> come out of the publisher, up front.
>
> Jon
Since I'm currently writing a book about XML I have to break my silence ;-)
I would appreciate such a "writers' membership" VERY much. Where's the right
place to discuss that? (I don't think XML-Dev is)
Bye,
Stefan.
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Stefan Mintert
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