Re: REF: Online verses Print

Robt R Pries wrote:

Harold Peters wroteSecond point: Right now the print copy people control the decision making process. Once there are enough computer oriented users paying enough to control the decision making, we will not have the put up with the current limitations being imposed by the printed copy people.

Harold what you wrote interests me. As one who has spent the last 15 years compiling information for checklists, I am concerned as to whether my final effort, of an Iris encyclopedia will ever be published. I certainly see the value of online data, especially because of the search tools. There are some things one can accomplish with a search/find that would take hours getting from the printed word. But in the same way, I find a number of benefits to having printed books also. Because I am trying to complete a five volume encyclopedia, I ponder whether I will ever be able to sell enough copies, to justify the printing, especially, if most of the material could be retrieved from a Google search. Fortunately at the moment most of the information is not available in that way. But if were, how many people would buy the books. It is not that I am trying to make any profit. I just want the books to be affordable. In order to provide them at a low cost a minimum number of 50!
0-1000
must be printed.

It also seems to me that if everything is on line, than what would be the virtue in having an Iris society. I wonder about these things and am concerned about how the future will evolve. I greatly appreciate online services, but I also like having an Iris Society and printed matter. In my mind, I have not been able to reach a conclusion as to whether they are all compatible. I would like to believe that printed matter and online products will compliment each other rather than compete. I would love to hear others thoughts.

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Anybody remember the paperless office of the '80's ?

The current information online is both benefit(creating the need for more information) and detriment( thats all the information I need)

The only real threat to paper books are the books on CD or DVD. The market price affects the amount of sales and profits. The Complete Oxford Unabridged Dictionary continues to be printed despite the popularity of the CD versions that are thousands of dollars cheaper.

A visit to a book store, online or not, will illustrate the popularity of the hybrid books. The cost of commercial color printing even had its effect on TWOI. Just think what a wonderful improvement it could have been if they had been able to include 8 Gigabytes of high resolution photographs on an accompaning DVD at lower costs!

Since its not too late if you are really concerned about sales its time to include Aitkins and South Beach diet recipes from some of those folks referred to in the Encyclopedia. :-)

Online shopping continues to be a growing industry but a great majority of purchasing is still done in retail stores. Ever shop on line and then go to the store to buy it? Online shopping does have a considerable effect on specialty items such as iris that are normally sold mail order. I know a fellow in San Jose that conducts business solely on walk-in traffic but that is the single exception I know of.

Michael M.

Michael M.

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