[sdiy] Electronotes Free

[Sean Dynan]

For what it's worth from a list lurker, those people who would rip off a
PDF wouldn't buy Electronotes in the first place. The music and film
industries came to terms with that counter-intuitive assumption 10 years
ago. The market for Electronotes is tiny and those asked to pay $50, or
more, will gladly pay it. Apart from shipping costs to the UK my biggest
discouragement with paper Electronotes is the fact they're on paper. I
don't have the room on my little work area to place printed pages, but I do
have a computer screen right in front of me. And when I go on holiday, and
have days at a time to devote to planning my next synthesizer, I spend a
lot of time on an iPad reading web sites and documents. An Electronotes PDF
would be a Godsend.

Perhaps a more workable solution would be to offer a pay-only web site,
like some newspapers and Sound-on-Sound do. Punters could have access to
everything electronically via the web and it would always be up-to-date.

-- 
Sean



On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 at 07:39 David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:

> I gotta say, I'm very amused by this discussion so far.  Bernie Hutchins
> strikes me as the sort of fellow who is not in the habit of seeking out
> advice on how to run his affairs from folks on the internet.  He's
> obviously doing this thing exactly the way he wants to do it, and I respect
> that.  Plus, I like hardcopies, personally.
>
> I have had three boxes of Electronotes sitting in my garage for a couple
> of years, and never made the time to delve into them until just a few weeks
> ago.  I must say that I regret not doing it sooner.  I take long walks in
> the evening for exercise, and I've started to take various issues
> of Electronotes along to read so the walking isn't such a waste of time.
> The other people on the trail must think I'm a total goof, but who cares?
>
> I took the Musical Engineer's Handbook with me on a recent trip to
> Toronto, and read it voraciously on both plane trips and in my AirBnB
> room.  What a lovely way to fill the time!  I already knew a lot of the
> stuff contained therein, of course, but a lot of it was very rusty and it
> was great to refresh the ol' memory banks.  I learned quite a few new
> things as well, and even the stuff I wasn't all that interested in really
> made me think about things and some new ideas started to flow.
>
> However, it is a relative pain in the ass to carry several hundred pages
> of paper across the country -- not only is it heavy, but I'm worried about
> losing or damaging pages.  I am definitely going to three-hole-punch and
> bind the thing when I get the chance, and I have half a mind to run it
> through a scanner and make PDFs of each section.  Of course, these would
> just be for my own use.  However, I don't see that it would take more than
> an hour or so to do the whole MEH on a reasonably capable automatic-loading
> scanner/copier such as the ones in my department at the university.  I
> wonder if Bernie has any objection to that?  Indeed, I can't see that it
> would take more than a couple days of dedicated effort to scan all three
> boxes worth of stuff.
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