Howard why dont you sell PDF format of your book? That makes life
easy
for you as well as buyers. I understand your hesitations. But let
me
try to address some of them.
1. First of all, any hard copy book
can be scnned and pirated, if
thats your fear.
2. You can encrypt the
PDF. Use DRM.
3. You can zip or RAR the PDF and send the pwd separately to
the
buyer's email.
4. You can use licensing software that can generate
machine id based
code and allow opening the book only on 2 PCs of the
buyer.
5. You can even print small code numbers on the PDF versions of
each
book, so that even if it lands up on the Net, you can pinpoint who
the
person behind it is.
6. For opening the book first time on a new PC,
you can ask the for a
login to your site, for authentication.
The
point is that solutions are many, if you are willing to implement
them.
Other than cutting out your time at the post office, imagine the
increase
in the number of customers.
WHy do you think big publishers like
Wiley, McGrawHill and others
provide ebooks in spite of being aware of the
risks?
Your comments are welcome.
Regards
Kar
--- In
amibroker@xxxxxxxxxps.com,
"Howard Bandy" <howardbandy@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Angelo
--
>
> Thanks for the encouragement for my new book --
Introduction to
> AmiBroker. I have started a new thread to get away
from the
> "difficulty of AFL" thread.
>
> You all know my
feelings -- AmiBroker is clearly the best choice for a
> trading systems
development platform. My book is intended to make it
> as easy as
possible for as many people as possible to become competent
> users of
AmiBroker.
>
> There is always a conflict between accessibility
and completeness.
> Introduction to AmiBroker is intended to be useful
to people who have
> absolutely no experience with AmiBroker, and
perhaps little experience
> with any programming language and little
experience with trading
> systems or even charting.
>
>
Should a book present the basics in enough detail so that everyone can
>
get started and use the most common features of AmiBroker? Or should
>
it present all of the features of AmiBroker, even though that will
>
make the book longer, heavier, more expensive, more overwhelming to a
>
new user, and very likely to slip out-of-date quickly?
>
> I am
leaning toward the former -- a book that presents the basics in
> enough
detail to get everyone started and reasonably proficient. My
> thoughts
are that AmiBroker is having its set of features expanded
> regularly,
and that no printed text can stay current and explain
> everything,
including screen captures and examples. Covering the
> basics in detail
is more valuable to new users than covering topics
> such as Custom
BackTester and creation of dlls in an introductory
book.
>
>
I believe that there is a place for, and there may be a market for, a
>
book describing the advanced features of AmiBroker. But I am thinking
>
that is a separate book. Those of you who have read Quantitative
>
Trading Systems will note that I have focused on the development and
>
testing of trading systems, but used many of the advanced features of
>
AmiBroker to illustrate. I believe that advanced features are best
>
described in the context of specific examples such as these.
>
>
Most of the people reading these posts are already well into
>
AmiBroker, so your comments are from a group that has already had a
>
mostly successful experience. But I would appreciate constructive
>
suggestions from anyone who has thoughts and opinions about this.
>
> The writing of Introduction to AmiBroker is well under way. I
expect
> to have copies available early 2008.
>
>
Thanks,
> Howard
>
www.quantitativetradingsystems.com
>
www.blueowlpress.com
>