Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!tnc!m0154 From: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: C Manual Message-ID: <817@tnc.UUCP> Date: 24 May 91 12:47:54 GMT References: <1991May12.204101.29882@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991May22.005445.28072@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT) Organization: The Next Challenge, Fairfax, Va. Lines: 21 In article <1991May22.005445.28072@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >> You must be kidding. Anyone who sends you money should be sending it to the >> author of the manual instead. Your $30 fee doesn't just cover your costs of >> distribution, which is what PD Wares dictate you can charge. > >Mike, "PD" means "you can charge whatever you want". Plus, have you figured >the cost of wear on his printer, toner, paper, binders, his time, etc... >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. Yes, and based on what my company bills its clients (yes, we keep records to this level of detail) for pages xeroxed, pages laserprinted, and pages faxed, $30 for a 100+ page document seems about right, once you have added up the per-page charges, the cost of the binder and dividers, and the cost of the labor to feed the laserprinter, print the pages, put them in binders, and mail them off. Wildstar