> But unless you want hard-copy,
> having it available on those authors' web-sites would
> actually be better.
> However, as we were saying, people do like hard-copy.
> Producing hard-copy isn't free. So they need to
> charge, and that means sales. To break even without
> prices going through the roof, you need a minimum
> number of sales. All very hand-wavy and lacking in
> numbers, I know, but I believe that covers the basic
> economics. Drop the hard-copy, and most of the
> problem vanishes.
I agree, but hard-copy has got one advantage over web stuff : it doesn't totaly disappear suddenly like web sites. How many gloranthian web treasures are completly lost ? Hard copy has some kind of inertia : e-bay, game shops, scanned copies...
What only exists in electronic form is frail.
Boris
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