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Re: Re: xml, books

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• Subject: Re: Re: xml, books
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 15 Oct 2003 20:52:42 -0700
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"Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...> writes:

> ari@c... (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.

-- 
Elections only count as free and trials as fair if you can lose money
betting on the outcome.

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