Free Online boosts Paid Offline Sales
Intersting take from Boing Boing:
James Randi puts text of "occult-debunk" encyclopedia online The self-appointed guru of anti-woowoo has released the full text of his Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural online for free. James Randi hopes the move will boost sales of the print edition.When I decided to place the entire text (...) on the Internet, it was suggested to me that this could cut into the sales of the printed version. However, experience has shown that, in the publishing business, making a book available on the Internet only stimulates sales of the actual book! Another mystery.
