"Simon St.Laurent" <> writes:
> (K. Ari Krupnikov) writes:
>
> >Can you say if books that are available online sell
> >better or worse than those that aren't? Norman Walsh's DocBook for
> >instance?
>
> The problem here is that there's no good way to compare like and like.
> I don't have an equivalent book to compare it with, much less the same
> book without the open license.
>
> At this point in time, I suspect that Norm's online version gets a lot
> more reading than our print book gets selling.
You've speculated on the relative "sales" of a money-costing paper
edition and a free-as-in-beer online one of the same book. Do you have
a speculation on wether you would have sold more of fewer copies of
the original 1999 paper edition had an online one not been available?
Ari.
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