Hi Jay.

>I personally do not work to make it profitable for authors to publish. Your comments seem to be an admonishment for not buying books. You publish and hope that they are purchased, but we do not need to purchase them. There is nothing wrong with the way Walter chooses to exists as a developer. His choice, not yours.

This is all true. However, although Tamar can speak for herself (and almost certainly more eloquantly than I), I'm pretty sure her meaning wasn't that everyone should buy books, but that those who don't buy books, read magazines, or go to conferences should not then bemoan their loss.

Doug