On 7 Apr 2008, Ross Anderson wrote: > I've got an even stronger suggestion - make all the > tunebooks available free online. > It's been found in a number of contexts that making a book available > online for free doesn't harm its sales. It often actually helps. > People browse the > book on their PCs then buy a paper copy for convenience. >(it's interesting to look at stuff online, but > tiresome to balance your laptop on your music stand)
Thanks for that, Ross. I think it was fear of sales loss, combined with it being quite a large project, that has so far prevented this happening. However if evidence suggests otherwise, it is certainly a suggestion that can be re-examined, and possibly passed to our webgroup team for experimental implementation. Cheers Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
