>Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 11:51:16 +0100 (BST)
>From: Cliff McKnight <[log in to unmask]>
>This seems to me to be short-sighted of publishers. As a counter-example,
>the entire text of Adam Engst's "Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh"
>is available on the web <http://www.mcp.com/hayden/iskm/mac.html> at
>the publisher's site because they claim it has boosted sales of the
>PRINT version! I've also come across another example of this phenomenon
>but can't recall it at the moment...anyone else...?
>Cliff
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Cliff,
Even if it's not one-off item publishing, Henry Rzepa has certainly
been heard (by me, for one) reporting that the RSC's hard-copy
subscription sales of Chem. Comms. had risen in some presumed
relation to its availability via the CLIC project.
Will
Will Wakeling
Assistant Director of Information Services, Collection Management,
The Library,
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 (0) 121 414 5809
Fax. +44 (0) 121 471 4691
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