There is a continuing myth that when information is provided for free authors starve.I'm reminded of earlier in the OOO thread, where Bryant commented on how when one publishes open source from the start, like he's done with The Speculative Turn,
he's still making a decent profit on sales and providing the
information for free to those who choose not to pay. He even said that
open source was increasing his sales! From that post:
"From a sales angle, however, I’ve been surprised to discover that open access publishing actually seems to increase sales. The Speculative Turn
has been a wild success. It crashed Re.Press’s server the night it was
released, and has hovered around the 40-60 thousand sales rank on Amazon
consistently since it was released a year ago. This is extraordinary
for an academic text, especially given that anyone can access it for
free."
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