[sdiy] Marketplace Question

[David G Dixon]

I think this AES thing is a great idea.

After my little screed yesterday, I've had quite a few encouraging private
messages, so I'm going to share my further thoughts....

First, a funny story.  I actually used Electronotes two days ago for a
module design.  I no longer have the Intellijel paper copy, as Danjel took
that back a few years ago, but I found what I needed on the internet.  In
this case, it was EN #168, the discussion around the mathematics of Dome
filters (which is what I needed) and how to build them with two-pole
sections (which I didn't need but found very interesting).

So, this leads me to my final thought on this topic:

The only reasonable fate for Electronotes, in my view, is for it to be
scanned, indexed, and archived on the internet for download, almost
certainly for free.  One would simply go to www.electronotes.com or
something similar and one would find a table of contents with the entire
content of EN broken down into useful topic headings, and ultimately each
issue would be downloadable as a separate PDF file.  That way, people could
go back and get whatever piece they wanted whenever they wanted.

Let's be honest: nobody who bought the $300 paper stack ever used or even
read the entire paper stack.  That is a fairly useless and unnecessarily
cumbersome way to disseminate information, especially in 2020.  I, for one,
found delving into the USPS Priority Mail boxes full of paper to be a
daunting and enervating exercise.  A better model would be something like
the Elliott Sound Products website, which I use constantly, and with which
I'm sure most of us are very familiar.

As Bernie has said 1000 times in 100 different forums, there is no money to
be made on Electronotes.  If there were, then he'd be emailing us from his
island retreat in the Bahamas.  Also, be realistic: nobody is going to
retype it, reset it, etc.  There's actually no point, since it is all pretty
clear and useful in its current form.  It just needs to be scanned,
uploaded, and shared freely.

I'm presuming that this could happen were a lump-sum payment to be arranged.
For that, a crowd-funding mechanism could be made to work.  The target
audience for such a funding exercise is reading this message right now.

OK, I'm done thinking about this.  I've got a class to teach at 12:30.

Cheers,
Doc Sketchy
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] On Behalf Of Neil
Johnson
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 9:03 AM
To: BrightBoy
Cc: SDIY
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Marketplace Question

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Hi,

BrightBoy wrote:
> Perhaps Bernie should donate the entire EN collection to the Audio 
> Engineering Society (AES)
>
> I can't imagine them turning that away and would want to see it archived.
>
> If you want access, you become an AES member (about $200/year)
>
> Clearly they know how to scan and archive stuff as all their journals 
> and conference proceedings are available for download.
>
> All AES members have free access to their entire library.

In the US it is $125/yr for associate membership.  Even now I think it's
worth it just to get access to the library.

Neil
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