All I have heard is that the commercial book for Carrara 5 will follow shortly after the release of C5.

The problem with this is that the book is likely to have been produced hurridly and will most probably be rift with errors. My experience with commercial pubs is that if they come out less than 8 or 10 months after the software release, then they are apt to be inaccurate.

There was a time that software houses kept a writing team on board, as employees or as freelance contractors that followed the production of the software. This meant that when the software was published it came with a printed manual that was highly accurate.

This is seldom the case anymore. Companies no longer want the employee expense and the freelance people are too hurried to meet release dates to be able to put out a good manual. I will venture a guess that the .pdf that comes with C5 is inacurrate.

I have been told by one company, I do not care to mention who, that the average cost of a quality manual ran between 20 and 40 US dollars. This was the setup, printing and shipping costs per manual. This did not include the employeefreelance author expense.

At any rate, the consusmer is buying what I consider to be an incomplete product. After all, would you buy an automobile and then go to the bookstore and buy a users manual for it?

Think about it.

Message edited on: 01/07/2006 14:47