[sdiy] Marketplace Question

[David G Dixon]

At the risk of some serious opprobrium, I'm just going to go ahead and
address the 800-pound gorilla in the room:
 
If no one has ever made any money from Electronotes, and (evidently) no one
ever will, and the owner is unwilling to sell fresh copies, then why is it
all protected and kept secret like the script of next year's blockbuster
movie?   Why not just put it all in the public domain and allow (or, indeed,
encourage) anyone with a copy to scan it to PDF and put it all on the damned
internet already?
 
Bernie doesn't want to part with it, but he doesn't want to sell it, but he
doesn't want to give it away, and he certainly doesn't want anyone who
hasn't paid for it to ever see it.  He might as well just throw it all on a
bonfire and be done with it.  I know that I, for one, am pretty tired of
hearing about what an enormous burden it all is.
 
 
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From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] On Behalf Of
Bernard Arthur Hutchins, Jr
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2020 2:56 PM
To: synth-diy at synth-diy.org
Subject: [sdiy] Marketplace Question


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Don wrote: On Nov 3, 2020, at 12:34 PM, Bernard Arthur Hutchins, Jr <
<http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy> bah13 at cornell.edu>
wrote: 

>  

> READ - then comment -PLEASE.  Reading comprehension PLEASE.  

>  

> I was ONLY interested to see if the Marketplace allowed people whom I
might (as a courtesy) direct there to connect a willing buyer to a set of
USED Electronotes (Ben says OK), not to reopen an uninformed, assuming,
impractical, largely debunked discussion of how to supposedy provide new
copies etc. ( I regret not letting the sleeping dog alone. )  No suggestions
please, unless you have ACTUALLY READ ALL the links and understood them
(and, I suppose - have money to invest).  

Bernie's comments in{ } 

Bernie,  

I *have* read and understood all that.  And I agree that republishing 6500
pages of complex technical material is a gargantuan task that nobody in
their right mind would want to attempt.  

But that's not what I suggested. 

Again... I am proposing to recruit an editorial team (from here or Muff
Wiggler) and publish a regular-sized book of selected Electronotes articles
on a particular topic,{Who (specifically)recruits the team? Who pays them?
Volunters! (Don't be silly.) Who pays the printer?} do it up nice, and see
how the book does in the market.  If successful, turn another topic into the
next book.   

The important part is that you, Bernie, would not be doing the work, other
than advise and approval.  {Sorry - not available.} 

I know *exactly* how to do publication-quality plots and schematics.  It's
not difficult.  And we could put together a set of tools to assist in much
of the work. 

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Second proposal: 

Would you, Bernie, consider allowing others to republish Electronotes
material on their own {the offer has been out for 20 years}, in the form
described above, with a percentage of the revenue going to you? {Upfront?} 

--- 

My overall point is that this stuff is culturally, technically, and
historically important, the modular synthesizer renaissance has created a
demand, there are very few books out on this topic, the current state of EN
distribution is mostly inaccessible {Not true IF people look for USED copies
-  try this first}, and there's money to be made {NOT in 40 years so far!}. 

--- 

And one more... 

What if there was a publishing company that specialized in upscale books on
electronic music? 

  -- Don 

-- 

Donald Tillman, Palo Alto, California 

 <http://www.till.com/> http://www.till.com 

{THANKS DON - Bernie} 


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