[pca006132]

While financial incentives is important to some, a lot of people write books to share their knowledge and give the book out for free. I think more people are doing this now, and there are also open collaborative textbook projects.

And I personally think that it is weird to write books during your working hour, and also get monet from selling that book.

[deviantbit]

"financial incentives"

This is the most ignorant response I've seen yet. We don't expect monetary gain from publishing a book. We expect our costs to be covered.

This is about the consumer, not the publisher. If we lived in a socialist system, they would still pirate our publications and we will still be in debt over it.

[btreecat]

That's a financial incentive, I'm not sure what your rejection is exactly.