On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
1. The number of scholars using PG texts is epsilon. Scholars don't use texts digitized by somebody they don't trust. They digitize themselves or use facsimiles.
Another one of those ebook chicken-and-egg problems. In the past it was: people won't buy ebook readers because there's nothing to read on them; publishers won't publish in e because there's no convenient way to read the books. I believe that DP and PG had a great deal to do with breaking this impasse, by making many thousands of books available FREE ... which is always a selling point. Now the impasse is that scholars won't use ebooks because the books don't fit their needs, and we won't tune the books to their needs because no scholars use ebooks. We will get past this one too. As for scholarly digitisation efforts ... they're often useless for course work because the instititutions try to PREVENT easy access. You can only read the books on their website, and can't easily download. Nasty grasping behavior. Eventually the scholars will realize that DP's later efforts, with pagination and specification of the edition from which the scans were taken, are trustworthy. -- Karen Lofstrom