Clark makes a good suggestion about a sort of abbreviated index.
Publishers interested in making content more accessible could benefit from
such an index -- for example, I could put the open content from "Three Days
to Kill" on the PenumbraD20 website, and having a link from the index to our
website would (a) give away the content for free (something we choose to do
as a publisher), but (b) benefit us in turn by bringing eyeballs to our
webpage (which may generate sales of full products).
To be honest, I *do* like the idea of having all the open content, with
proper citations, in a central location. But I can also see how it may have
a chilling effect on publishers who have a reasonable concern that it will
reduce sales. (It might actually have the opposite effect, but that's a
different argument and not one likely to be solved soon.)
Someone really ambitious could have a pay-for-access database, almost like
Lexis-Nexis. But, well, that might be a bit much in terms of work and
likely reward. (After all, court decisions, property records and such are
all "open content" -- it's all the added value that make the services those
lawyers use worthwhile.)
-John Nephew
President, Atlas Games
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