>I for one would certainly be interested in some form of per-search
>access to the web version, and you'll certainly get some of my money
>sooner that way than by waiting for me to save up the subscription
>price. Perhaps some sort of free front end could be developed to
>help refine a search (by telling how many hits will have to be paid
>for, how they are distributed among the volumes of the PL, etc.)
>before incurring the cost of downloading actual texts. You'd be
>giving away free negative information, in the sense that I could
>determine that a given phrase doesn't occur in the Augustine volumes,
>but that would encourage me to use the service often and to unscrew
>the credit card when I found a hit.
>
>Peter Binkley
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A very good idea, which I strongly support. Nevertheless I still fail to
understand why the publishers of the PLD seem so firmly decided not to make
money with their product, and to keep the ready sale limited to (I am only
guessing and probably still exagerating) ca. one percent of the actually
existing potential buyers. If you invest $ 1000 into the production of of a
good for which there is a market of 1000 potential buyers, it seems no very
good idea to me to fix the price at $ 100, which can be afforded by a
maximum of ten buyers, instead of reducing the price to $ 10 and sell the
product a 1000 times. Maybe the people running Chadwyck-Healey Ltd don't
like their business and therefor try to keep it as small as possible.
Otfried
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