<div dir="ltr">For what it's worth from a list lurker, those people who would rip off a PDF wouldn't buy Electronotes in the first place. The music and film industries came to terms with that counter-intuitive assumption 10 years ago. The market for Electronotes is tiny and those asked to pay $50, or more, will gladly pay it. Apart from shipping costs to the UK my biggest discouragement with paper Electronotes is the fact they're on paper. I don't have the room on my little work area to place printed pages, but I do have a computer screen right in front of me. And when I go on holiday, and have days at a time to devote to planning my next synthesizer, I spend a lot of time on an iPad reading web sites and documents. An Electronotes PDF would be a Godsend.<div><br></div><div>Perhaps a more workable solution would be to offer a pay-only web site, like some newspapers and Sound-on-Sound do. Punters could have access to everything electronically via the web and it would always be up-to-date.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Sean<br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 at 07:39 David G Dixon <<a href="mailto:dixon@mail.ubc.ca">dixon@mail.ubc.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div><span class="m_-3088659706882479172113342109-26062017"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I
gotta say, I'm very amused by this discussion so far. Bernie Hutchins
strikes me as the sort of fellow who is not in the habit of seeking out
advice on how to run his affairs from folks on the internet. He's
obviously doing this thing exactly the way he wants to do it, and I respect
that. Plus, I like hardcopies, personally.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="m_-3088659706882479172113342109-26062017"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="m_-3088659706882479172113342109-26062017"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I have
had three boxes of Electronotes sitting in my garage for a couple of
years, and never made the time to delve into them until just a few weeks
ago. I must say that I regret not doing it sooner. I take long walks
in the evening for exercise, and I've started to take various issues
of Electronotes along to read so the walking isn't such a waste of
time. The other people on the trail must think I'm a total goof, but who
cares?</font></span></div>
<div><span class="m_-3088659706882479172113342109-26062017"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="m_-3088659706882479172113342109-26062017"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I took
the Musical Engineer's Handbook with me on a recent trip to Toronto, and read it
voraciously on both plane trips and in my AirBnB room. What a lovely way
to fill the time! I already knew a lot of the stuff contained therein, of
course, but a lot of it was very rusty and it was great to refresh the ol'
memory banks. I learned quite a few new things as well, and even the stuff
I wasn't all that interested in really made me think about things and some new
ideas started to flow.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="m_-3088659706882479172113342109-26062017"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="m_-3088659706882479172113342109-26062017"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">However, it is a relative pain in the ass to carry several hundred
pages of paper across the country -- not only is it heavy, but I'm worried about
losing or damaging pages. I am definitely going to three-hole-punch and
bind the thing when I get the chance, and I have half a mind to run it
through a scanner and make PDFs of each section. Of course, these would
just be for my own use. However, I don't see that it would take more than
an hour or so to do the whole MEH on a reasonably capable automatic-loading
scanner/copier such as the ones in my department at the university. I
wonder if Bernie has any objection to that? Indeed, I can't see that it
would take more than a couple days of dedicated effort to scan all three boxes
worth of stuff.</font></span></div></div>
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