Re: Online and out of print

On 2/21/97, Albert Henderson <70244.1532[_at_]compuserve.com> wrote: >
[snip]
> Promoters of the Internet will probably disagree, but I have serious
> doubts whether making a file or group of files available electronically
> meets many authors' need for serious dissemination usually understood
> as being "in print." In terms of promoting readership, how different
> is an ftp file from a dissertaion on microfilm that is indexed,
> abstracted and offered for sale?

Being one of the promoters of the Internet, I will take this opportunity to disagree. There is a significant and sizable difference between the examples Albert gives. Let us remember that, for the purposes of this discussion, the Internet is about 4 things:

1. Marketing
2. Promotion
3. Promotion
4. Marketing.

That difference alters the situation completely. And if the author of the work, be it scholarly or otherwise, either understands or learns about how to market and promote, he or she may find the dust being blown off the monograph.

Many of my articles that first appeared on the Net have been published in numerous hard copy versions.

IVAN HOFFMAN, B.A., J.D.
Attorney At Law
Copyrights, Contracts, Internet Law, Electronic Rights, INTERNET LAW SIMPLIFIED http://home.earthlink.net/~ivanlove Received on Sat Feb 22 1997 - 15:01:12 GMT