[luau] "open source" books

[Karen Lofstrom]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Charles Lockhart wrote:

> Maybe an odd topic question, but was wondering if anyone has or knows of
> statistics for the success of books that have free online versions
> available?

I dunno about tech manuals, but for novels, it IS true that free e-books
prompt more people to buy the paper books. Go to baen.com and look at the
free e-books available there; there's an essay on the site, by Eric Flint,
about how _1632_, the book he put online, is his best-selling book. It
looks like people read the e-book coz it's free and if they like it,
decide they want the dead-tree version.

Don't have statistics to back this up, of course.

-- 
Karen Lofstrom