Goobermetrics Life Lesson #1: Book publishing is not a lucrative business … 

 Wednesday 3 January 2007, 1:14 pm    Goobermetrics
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I contributed some work (along with 4 other colleagues) some time ago to a technical book that was recently published. Today the 5 of us each received cheques for 21 pounds and 80 pence for our efforts. Awesome… it’s going to cost me 20 odd bucks to cash the thing, leaving me approximately 30AUD for my trouble. I think I will get it laminated for posterity instead. We actually asked for a single cheque so we could maximise the amount of hookers and blow we could acquire but they did not oblige.

Obviously I didn’t work on it for the money, rather because it would look good on the C.V. However this book is so expensive (400 Euro) that I can’t even afford a copy to put on my bookshelf….. so my dear friends, you won’t be getting signed copies of this riveting tome any time soon.

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  1.  Gravatar Stephen King (Wednesday 3 January 2007, 1:24 pm) # 

    “It’s like ‘The Bride Stripped Bare’ meets ‘Queueing Systems Volume 1: Theory’. Great for those with chronic insomnia.


  2.  Gravatar The Editor (Wednesday 3 January 2007, 1:26 pm) # 

    I’ll wait for the movie adaptation.


  3.  Gravatar billybob (Thursday 4 January 2007, 12:15 pm) # 

    ZZZ, ha… pounds? zzz


  4.  Gravatar Mikey (Friday 5 January 2007, 11:33 pm) # 

    What? No courtesy copy? They should at least give you a courtesy copy. Not to is to be discourteous.


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