I put it on my virtual drive at work (not remembering that that volume doesn't travel w/ me). So I can't read it right now while I'm at the garage getting tires. But I do have wireless access! ...If only I could get to my e-book from the 'cloud' like a song from iTunes...
I just don't have the USB.
Would I subscribe to my books?
Would I buy a one, two or seven year subscription for access to the electronic version in the cloud? If I get updates to the version the document will outlive the paper copy. Would it be cheaper than buying paper? I would probably buy all three anyway and with that it would be likely that I'd get the paper copy only with the first edition I buy. (?)
It is a technical book about a technology that changes in terms of months, sometimes radically. It is very likely that I'd do better to subscribe to the book (if the author keps it fresh, as with the MEAP 'early access' feature at Manning Publishing).
Does it make business sense?
- What additional infrastructure?
- You have the electronic editions anyway.
- You must personalize the footers w/ the licensee name (as per the current branding of each copy on the PDF).
- Unfortunately reading PDF files online via a web browser stream is just really painful due to the performance lags as it loads. You'd have to do better w/ the online reading experience by supporting 'reader' devices such as kindle, google reader, landru, etc.
Boy did that really distract me from the original thing I was going to do while waiting on my car. At least they have wireless. Thanks to the people at Miles Auto Service in Richmond! They're really good!
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