At 07:55 PM 21/01/2003 +0000, Alexander V.Nevsky wrote:

> For information of community: I, being main consultant of the
>"Interbase World" book, can definitely say that author's emoluments
>namely on this book were very frugal, price of the book was minimized
>to just to fit requirements of publishers and is small enough to be
>available for every student. All consultants made their work without
>payment at all. It was act of promotion supported by all Russian
>IB/FB/YA community, not a commercial undertaking.

..which is very heartening and, as you commented, makes the attempt to
steal so much worse.

I thoroughly doubt that writing technical books can ever be considered a
commercial undertaking.

regards,
Helen