[A2k] Any examples/ any evidence?

[Taran Rampersad]

Well.... once they are released into the wild, there is no 'control' to
see how they would have done otherwise. But Lawrence Lessig has released
his 4th book under a Creative Commons License:
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/01/the_future_of_ideas_is_now_fre_1.html\

But I don't know that there is any empirical evidence or could be...

Alan Story wrote:
> Would anyone on the list have concrete and specific examples of books that
> prove the following proposition:
>
> Allowing free, open, and ongoing access (online) to the full text of a
> commercially-published, non-fiction book does NOT hurt sales of that book
> and, in fact, can (and does) stimulate sales of that book, especially if
> the online version gets sufficient "buzz" on the Internet, in blogs, in
> e-mail lists, etc.
>


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