The Cranky User : Electronic publishing, usability, and a free lunch - Many people will point out the difficulty of applying the same theory for promoting the sale of books in one market or genre as in another. We do have one data point: textbooks, unlike paperbacks, are not cheap and are not read for entertainment. Yet apparently, Charles Vest of MIT has observed that sales of MIT press textbooks go up when the book's complete text is made available online.

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De temps à autres Dave Winer tape dans le mille...
D'une certaine manière, il incarne bien un comportement fréquent chez les ricains : une vive intelligence souvent accompagnée d'une contradictoire naïveté...

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