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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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