On Dec 5, 2007 7:33 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/6/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
While these are all perfectly valid arguments for individual geeks to
not
buy paper books, the book companies business is steady or slowly growing over time, so there's no reason not to go with a real publisher and have them print some up.
Unless you're *opposed* to making money...
I was only addressing individual geeks. I have no opinion on what format books should be sold in, other than that electronic delivery has a much greater risk of piracy.
In this case, with a GFDL online version planned, piracy is sort of inapplicable. 8-)
...which leads into the Flint/Doctorow Doctorine of "release it freely to increase ultimate sales", but that's a different story...