John Gilmore wrote:
If you don't really want to inventory and sell hard copies anymore
raising their prices to very high levels is an elegant thing to do.
It discourages most people from asking for them, and those few hard
copies that continue to be sold will each be very profitable even on a
print-on-demand basis. Then after a time, having weaned most people
from using them, you can announce that hard copies will not longer be
available on any terms.
This is in fact a gentlemanly if devious way to proceed. There is a
down side, but it is probably unimportant in the grand scheme of
things. Hardcopy/print publication has a tradition of proofreading
and literacy; the web does not; hence _does'nt_.
And perhaps "The definitive version of this publication is the hardcopy
version." appearing behind the title page of the Principles of Operation.
Bob
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