Re: Book

James Powell (jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu)
Fri, 8 Oct 93 08:56:09 -0400

Well, one thing I've wanted to do since I found out there was a Carnivorous
Plant Newsletter was to convince someone to let me put the back issues online
in an electronic format. Never knew who to ask.

That's what I do for a living, mostly. We publish ejournals so that everyone
with any kind of connectivity to the Internet can get at them:
journals are published in ASCII text and Postscript (soon Acrobat/PDF too),
with graphics available in GIF and EPS. The issues are distributed via FTP,
Gopher, WAIS (text only), WWW, and Listserv (text only). I think I could
convince the powers that be around here to let me do this, provided it doesn't
take hundreds of megs of disk space.

But we don't charge for journals and back issues are a source of revenue for
the CPN, aren't they?

Maybe I could do only those that are out of print all together?

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