Re: Books, the lulu.com scam

Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> wrote:

>> So I bought this "book" thinking it was a PDF file which I am fine with.

>> Its not. They download an .acsm file that will only work with their
>> proprietary Windoze software.

>> I am really angry with lulu.com about this.

> I'm not sure I understand the purpose of them providing an electronic
> book copy of the PostgreSQL documentation since it's already available
> as both a PDF (A4 and US) and Windows help file (CHM) for free:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/

Apparently, you can make money out of it.

Tim