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On reflection I think my comment sounds rather thoughtless. You clearly have an interesting philosophy. Could you explain it a little more? You say > I just wa

On reflection I think my comment sounds rather thoughtless. You clearly have an interesting philosophy. Could you explain it a little more? You say > I just want to encourage the practice of authors allowing everybody to read their books. And yes, that would be great. You're hoping for a world in which essentially voluntary paid contributions (e.g. for paper books) is sufficient incentive for authors, correct? I say essentially voluntary because in your world an electronic copy would be available to everyone for free. My main question is: how far do you depart from the conventional incentive structure of capitalist/market-based societies? Do you think food should be free, also paid for by voluntary monetary or in-kind donations? Or only digitally-encoded information? Can you explain why information as a commodity should be treated differently?

enriquto 8y ago
Nothing too deep. I just loved the idea from this book : http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/ http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/ , where you can download even the .tex source and compile it yourself (and read the tex comments, they are great fun!) Then I bought a few copies of this one, and I found that there are many books of the same kind. I enjoyed the concept and decided to buy all such books that I found (and ask my library to buy one or two copies as well). > My main question is: how far do you depart from the conventional incentive structure of capitalist/market-based societies? LOL, this is just a silly criterion of mine for buying books. Do not read too much into it. By the way, it acts as a great filter: authors who are obsessed in spreading their knowledge no matter what, tend to write very interesting things.
- diego898 8y ago
  Hello! A tangential question: how did you manage to compile the book yourself? I find many errors that are hard to track down and Im not sure if its due to missing custom packages.

enriquto 8y ago

Nothing too deep. I just loved the idea from this book : http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/ http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/ , where you can download even the .tex source and compile it yourself (and read the tex comments, they are great fun!) Then I bought a few copies of this one, and I found that there are many books of the same kind. I enjoyed the concept and decided to buy all such books that I found (and ask my library to buy one or two copies as well). > My main question is: how far do you depart from the conventional incentive structure of capitalist/market-based societies? LOL, this is just a silly criterion of mine for buying books. Do not read too much into it. By the way, it acts as a great filter: authors who are obsessed in spreading their knowledge no matter what, tend to write very interesting things.

diego898 8y ago
Hello! A tangential question: how did you manage to compile the book yourself? I find many errors that are hard to track down and Im not sure if its due to missing custom packages.