Electronotes and Synth-DIY CD

[Harry Bissell]

If Electronotes were on CD I'd buy it... Count me for one copy if it goes down.
Bernie is already a Guru... he could add "Hero" to his titles (and some cash to
his pockets...).
H^)

Christian Oncken wrote:

> >If enough people ante up with commitments, then perhaps Mr. Hutchens >would
> be more willing to spend some time on this.
>
> This is a good idea.  I'd buy one... but not for $250.  Around $100 is as
> high as I could go right now on my current budget.  Do you think this figure
> is reasonable, or too optimistic?
>
> >As someone pointed out, the scanning process is
> >time-comsuming. And who among us has time to burn? I suspect Mr
> >Hutchens is the same.
>
> Not much more time consuming than photocopying each and every page every
> time an order comes in... much _less_ time consuming I'd think.  There's a
> bit of effort needed to get it underway, but after that it will take about
> 15-20 minutes to get an order ready and out the door, materials will cost
> about $2, and the cost of shipping will drop tremendously.
>
> Perhaps directly approaching Mr. Hutchins about this would be effective...
> It really makes good business sense for him to do it this way, and if there
> was X amount of cash from pre-orders on the table as incentive it would
> surely help this out.  Another option might be to contact some of the
> original Electronotes contributors and ask them very nicely to encourage Mr.
> Hutchins to put the entire collection on CD.  Some gentle prodding from the
> people who actually contributed the articles might go a long way.
>
> But, I dont know about putting more than one collection on the CD... I think
> its best not to complicate matters at this stage.
>
> just some thoughts.
> Christian Oncken.