Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Right, but I'm not saying make the printed book available. I'm saying make
large/higher-rez versions
> of the photos in a biography, for instance, available. Or, for a
reported/journalistic book, perhaps
> make transcripts of some or all interviews available, both for history and
in the interest of
> transparency. Many authors do some of this already on their own websites
but it can take some
> digging to find the material.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lou Judson" <loujudson@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 2:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
>
>
> I'd think that part of the slowness is fear that it will cut into sales
> of their physical products, like who will buy it if they can download
> it... Record companies are dealing with this in their own ways too.
>
> Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
> 415-883-2689
>
> On Sep 2, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Tom Fine wrote:
>
> >
> > By the way, one solution to all this is simple. Every publisher has a
website today. Every book
> > should have an online component where things like color images can be
available. Publishers have
> > been snail-slow in most cases to understand the multi-media potential of
their products.
>
For the most part, the various projects of "web-izing" printed
works are limited to those no longer under copyright...?!

Steven C. Barr