[via “Open Access News”:http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/20040321_fosblogarchive.html#a108005892931588515]
Apropos my post on “freely accessible books”:http://semantics-online.org/2004/03/bookprojects and Greg Restall’s post on the “same topic”:http://consequently.org/news/2004/03/18/publishinga_book/index.html, read Jeffrey Tucker from the Ludwig von Mises Institute on Books, Online and Off:
bq. Tucker points out that online books and their print counterparts are seen as complementary, fulfilling similar and disparate functions for the reader. One example discussed is Mises’ Omnipotent Government, which the “current publisher” declined the Institute the rights to publish freely online. So the Institute negotiated to lease the book and pay the publisher for expected lost revenues.
“What happened was precisely the reverse of what the publisher expected. Instead of lost sales, the sales of the book shot up. In the few weeks since the text went online, more copies of this book left our warehouse than during the whole of the last decade. Omnipotent Government is now a top seller in the Mises.org catalog. The publisher obtained not only the leasing fee from our offices but suddenly enjoyed a flood of new orders for the book from us.”
[An earlier version of Tucker’s piece is “here”:http://www.mises.org/blog/archives/whyweputbooksonline_001698.asp.]
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