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by Raphmedia 3352 days ago
Aren't we talking about technical writing? The problem in the OP's post are about writing a book on SVG.

I would be more likely to agree if this thread was about the issues encountered while writing a children's story book.
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douche 3352 days ago
Writing a technical book is, as far as I was aware, well known to be a losing bet, where it's exceedingly rare that authors make back their advances. e.g. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/technical-writin...
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zmaks 3351 days ago
Who needs a book about SVG? When I needed to build charts I took couple tutorials plus searched answers on stack overflow. It's way more efficient than reading huge book.

So, such books are needed by very small group of people. And this defines the pay.

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Raphmedia 3349 days ago
> Who needs a book about SVG? When I needed to build charts I took couple tutorials plus searched answers on stack overflow.

The people out there who pride themselves into being able to do their work without relying on googling everything? What if you have an idea or a requirement that has never been done before?

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