[sdiy] Marketplace Question

[Chromatest J. Pantsmaker]

I hate to say it, but when Bernard passes, somebody is going to make
digital copies and start selling them.  They're going to be low-quality,
even if they're high-quality scans.  A scanned-to-PDF document is never as
nice as a designed-for-PDF document.  Without somebody like Bernard being
emotionally involved enough to be doing the QC, the product isn't going to
be very good.  It likely won't be searchable, maybe there's a TOC, but it
won't link to the sections/pages.  The graphics will be sub-par.

Will people buy it?  It sounds like it.  Personally, I have no need or
desire for it, even if it were a 600MB collection of files.  I'm not the
target audience though.

My point is this:  Somebody who already has a complete copy also has access
to a high-quality, hopper-fed scanner.  When they decide to scan it,
they'll have the entire thing scanned into PDFs in less than a week.  The
files then get uploaded to a for-pay file sharing site and it's done.
Bernard gets nothing out of it, and everybody who wants a new copy gets one
that will never degrade, never get torn or water damaged (assuming proper
backups).  It will be an inferior product, but they at least get the
product.

I'm not advocating for this to happen in any way (like I said, I don't even
want a copy).  I'm just being as realistic about the world as Bernard
appears to be.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 4:57 AM Gordonjcp <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 03:32:30AM +0000, Bernard Arthur Hutchins, Jr
> wrote:
> > Gordonjcp said:
> >
> > "There are literally people right here saying, "Say we can go ahead with
> this and we will do it".  Right here."
> >
> > I must have missed the part where you explain who (NOT ME!!!) and how a
> team of 100 is managed.  Herding Cats!  Back in 2017 I couldn’t get even
> one person here to proof read a 2-page scan as a test.
> >
>
> Why would you need as many as 100 people?
>
> > Proposed group efforts have a warm-and-fuzzy “Kumbaya” aura to them.  In
> general, it is folks standing around waiting for Mr. Somebody Should and
> for a cue to take a bow.
> >
>
> You've heard of this "Linux" thing, right?
>
> > Old saying on farms: “A boy can do a man’s work, two boys working
> together will do half a man’s job, and three boys working together aren’t
> worth a damn.
>
> Okay, so what do you actually want?
>
> Are you happy enough with the status quo where people sell on the only
> existing copies of Electronotes?
>
> Do you want more people to read it?  Do you want it gone forever?  What
> exactly are you shooting for here?
>
> Given that it seems to be one of the most jealously hoarded collections of
> documentation going, and I've never even seen what's in it, why would I
> bother to fork out hard cash for a tatty old second- or third- or
> fourth-hand copy?
>
> Seriously, do you want help or not?
>
> --
> Gordonjcp
>
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