The publishing industry has gotten worse in a lot of ways in the ~10 years since we did the first edition. The whole for-profit academic journals thing makes me sad in general, etc.
However, it's also impressive how much work how many people put in to publish a book (illustrators, proof-readers, copy editors, professional layout, etc., etc.). For a specialist book like PBR that sells ~1500 copies a year, no one involved is making a ton of money from the process including, as far as I can figure, the publisher.
Even though the most important reason I've done my part of that work is to try to spread knowledge as widely as possible, that all does make me want to do my small part to discourage piracy. :-)
The publishing industry has gotten worse in a lot of ways in the ~10 years since we did the first edition. The whole for-profit academic journals thing makes me sad in general, etc.
However, it's also impressive how much work how many people put in to publish a book (illustrators, proof-readers, copy editors, professional layout, etc., etc.). For a specialist book like PBR that sells ~1500 copies a year, no one involved is making a ton of money from the process including, as far as I can figure, the publisher.
Even though the most important reason I've done my part of that work is to try to spread knowledge as widely as possible, that all does make me want to do my small part to discourage piracy. :-)