[sdiy] Marketplace Question

[Jimmy Moore]

Let me have just a little bit of peril?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoP6qeKmhA>

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:01 AM info synthcube.com <info at synthcube.com>
wrote:

> Folks --having seen this kind of dialogue on Electro-Notes and more
> recently MuffWigglers, Mr Hutchins has made his views on this sort of thing
> very clear in the past --and we continue discussing the issue at our own
> peril!!
>
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>
> Chris
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> *From:* Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> * On Behalf Of *Shawn
> Rakestraw
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:46 PM
> *To:* Donald Tillman <don at till.com>
> *Cc:* Bernard Arthur Hutchins, Jr <bah13 at cornell.edu>;
> synth-diy at synth-diy.org
> *Subject:* Re: [sdiy] Marketplace Question
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> Don, I would volunteer for this if it happened. That would be an
> incredible project and such a wonderful tribute to all of the ideas
> presented in Electronotes over the decades. I also wonder if Mr. Hutchins
> would give his blessing on an independent project like this that does not
> even involve him (obviously he should be compensated monetarily).
>
>
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> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:30 PM Donald Tillman <don at till.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 2, 2020, at 8:06 PM, Bernard Arthur Hutchins, Jr <bah13 at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Your new “Marketplace” is interesting.  But what is the policy with
> regard to publications?  Books, manuals, newsletters etc.   The reason I
> ask is because, as the publisher of Electronotes, despite our notice of no
> longer shipping any orders, every week we receive questions as to whether
> there is some other way to buy copies.
>
>
> If only there was some economic system that incentivized the fulfillment
> of market demand...
>
> ---
>
> (I've said it before, but...)  Sheeshe Bernie, y'r sitting on a frickin
> gold mine!
>
> Here's what you do:
>
>    * Recruit a couple of people from this list with publishing experience
> to be your assistants.
>
>    * Pick a topic, say Oscillators, and compile the best of Electronotes
> on that topic.
>
>    * Work with your assistants to clean it up, re-layout, redo the graphs
> and schematics to publication quality standards, add updates and notes.
>
>    * Publish it as a book with one of those self-publishing companies,
> like Lulu.
>
>    * A percentage of the revenue goes to your assistants.  Buy a new car
> with the rest.
>
>    * Then work on the next book on the next topic.
>
>   -- Don
> --
> Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California
> http://www.till.com
>
>
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