[sdiy] Marketplace Question

[Gordonjcp]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 04:44:02AM +0000, Bernard Arthur Hutchins, Jr wrote:
> David G Dixon dixon at mail.ubc.ca Thu Nov 5 01:41:03 CET 20:
>       and the owner is unwilling to sell fresh copies,
>       doesn't want to sell it,
> { BERNIE: “unwilling to” and “doesn't want to” where instead “is unable to” is more consistent with all facts.  Ignorant assumptions – insensitive and disrespectful. }
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> Gordonjcp gordonjcp at gjcp.net  Thu Nov 5 12:56:19 CET 2020:
> Why would you need as many as 100 people?
> {  BERNIE: ask Jimmy and those on the MW thread:
>               Jimmy Moore jamoore84 at gmail.com Tue Nov 3 18:53:43 CET 2020
>             100 people typing out 65 pages each doesn't sound all that bad.
>             Even if it were 10,000 hours, 100 people contributing 100 hours each spread over something like 1 year sounds... completely reasonable.    }
> { back to Gordon} You've heard of this "Linux" thing, right?
>       [BERNIE: Relevance to issue here is what?}

Thousands of people can work collaboratively on projects, easily.

> Okay, so what do you actually want?
> {BERNIE: based on the top item in this thread, I asked Ben if I could send people looking for used EN to the Marketplace here. He said YES.  I asked for nothing else.}
> Are you happy enough with the status quo where people sell on the only existing copies of Electronotes?
> {BERNIE:    There are roughly 4500 copies!  Good grief!}

Almost all of which in the US, and prohibitively expensive to ship around the world.  I don't want to buy a couple of huge boxes of paper, I want to buy the information on it.

> Do you want more people to read it?
> {BERNIE:  I want more people  to learn  from it, not  just  to COLLECT it and then to suppose  they know  the material.  And to not complain that  a no-effort path (one click and FREE) is being withheld.}
> 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?
> {BERNIE: never even seen?  1/3 is free online!  “Tatty old” reeks of style-over-substance   }

Again, I don't want to be lugging great big boxes of paper around.

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Gordonjcp