copinemickmack Regardless of the genre of technical books, if you are only thinking about money, the safest thing to do is to write introductory books. Thatâs why publishers always say, âLetâs write an introductory book,â and thatâs necessary, but I think the field in which I have to compete most is intermediate and advanced books. So please give me a hand.
mizchi Beginners have the widest pie and loosest wallet. But this is not what I really want to write about! Or so you think, or youâve made a specialty of it.
h1nase The React community developed largely because high quality documentation is available on the internet for free, but I donât like the attitude that we have the best tool, the internet, and we have to write our findings in a paper I donât like the attitude that we should write our findings in a book when we have the best tool of the Internet. I was just wondering if you donât think you wouldnât be making a living at this job if you were putting the authorâs interests ahead of the readersâ interests.
mizchi However, I donât think the situation is healthy either, where good documents are not paid for because they are driven too much by good intentions only. Paper publishing is the existing capital of the non-Internet, from which authors with the know-how are forced to write documents, and there must be many books that would not have been written without that capital.
h1nase I donât think SW freedom is threatened by the publication of a personal book, but knowing the days when SW development knowledge was monopolized, I feel more disgusted than necessary. I know the time when the knowledge of SW development was monopolized, I feel disgusted more than necessary. Asking for compensation for the act of disseminating publicly available information in the form of educational materials is not in itself a monopolyâŠ
mizchi I think monopoly is not a tasty strategy for authors today. Itâs more like a very short-term burnout. I get the impression that itâs like a big version of the one where professors turn their books into textbooks for students to buyâŠ
mizchi For those who âget itâ, a request to write a book for beginners is an opportunity to think âthis is a good opportunity, letâs organize it for beginners and dump their brainsâ, but if they donât get paid for it Explaining things to beginners is usually not a high-cost thing to do. And unfortunately, the compensation for Japanese publishers is so dreary that itâs basically founded on good will.
h1nase: The development of the React community is largely due to the fact that high quality documentation is available on the internet for free, but I donât like the attitude that we should write our findings in a paper book when we have the best tool, the internet! I was just wondering if you donât think you wouldnât be making a living at this job if you were putting the authorâs interests ahead of the readersâ interests.
h1nase I am wondering why such a large amount of high quality SW-related documents are available in the US for free, and what the difference is between the US and Japan.
Is it a difference in the depth of human resources? The barriers to entry into the job market are supposed to be getting lower with so many high quality documents available for free, but the salaries for SW jobs in the US are the highest in the world, and
mizchi Probably for two reasons, in the early days there was a strong influence of hippie culture, and primitive communism or benevolent mutual aid was âa Monastery and Bazaar.â It became a reason for something like that. Itâs something else now, itâs a standards battle, pretending to be OSS and free documentation. Ultimately leading us to the cloud and SaaS peripheral ecosystems.
h1nase standardization battle, thatâs certainly a big one! The winning camp can make the other campâs library and tool chain obsolete, reduce the other campâs SW development jobs and bring them to their own camp, and
nishio I like the term âstandardization battleâ. Furthermore, there are those who benefit and those who are forced to pay transition costs by setting up a new standard with a negative impression of FUD against de facto standard, such as âold-fashionedâ or âIf you use this, you canât keep up with the changing timesâ.
mizchi: Probably for two reasons⊠Itâs something else now, itâs a standards battle, pretending to be OSS and free documentation. Ultimately leading us to the cloud and SaaS surrounding ecosystems.
nishio It may look like a free activity, but in fact the âreputationâ gained in the process is a stronger capital than money, and in units of 10 years or so, itâs a financial gain. There are times when this is the case
mizchi: I was writing a lot of React introductory articles around 2015 because I knew that if I didnât, I would be crushed under the weight of jQuery and die career-wise and mentally no matter what company I moved to⊠- Cash is weak capital
nishio The other day, âbeing free has a cost, who benefits from freedom and who pays the costâ: OSS and Small Government
nishio There is self-sacrificing altruism and self-serving altruism. If you donât distinguish between the two, you end up with self-sacrifice. From the beneficiaryâs point of view, the gain is the same in both altruism, but in the case of self-sacrifice, there is difficulty in continuity
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