.Avery Blog

i understand your spin on the "no royalty" issue. i wrote 3 books and about 10 articles for WROX prior to their demise. i lost count of how many articles, books, and entries i reviewed about 3 years ago.

i have never received a single royalty payment from the now-defunct company. i feel no remorse for them.

they were late on just about every single payment i ever did receive. i feel no remorse for them.

why? because i never signed up to be an author for the money. i never expected any money. i did, however, expect that, through my authorship, i would help aspiring developers learn how to do things. or to do things better. or to see how not to do things. whatever the case may be, i wrote to instruct. i wrote to provide knowledge to my readers. i did not write for money. perhaps, somewhat, i wrote because i was asked to write, and loved the notion of having an audience. perhaps, yes.

it did help my career. thing is, i'm sure it helped a lot of other careers too.

that, my friend, was the point, and the reason behind the activity of writing in the first place. sorry for the rant, but it seems to me that the notion of getting paid for it is, well, great, but not the reason. people who teach do so because it means something to them.

not because it pays well. your sixth-grade English teacher could have told you that. :)

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Likewise, never received a single check...not even my 'upfront' check. Oh well, I enjoyed the experience and hope the book helps 1 programmer.