02-20-2013, 10:25 PM
Quote:Because I think open access is the way to go, I feel all options should assume that access to stuff more than five years old would be free.Obviously this is hypothetical, but would that include digitised/scanned versions of the original JRMES as well? You wouldn't get an awful lot for your c.$10 in the first year otherwise (a problem with the hybrid model as well, I guess).
With regards to printing, it's better to do inadequately than to not do it at all! Digital media is going to suffer much less from format redundancy in the future as vast HDDs and swift transfer via USB become the norm. I have several full colour books and more than enough pdfs to match JRMES's original run just on my USB right now, and as that ages it can be transferred very easily to a more up to date storage medium. Keeping the software to run the files may be an issue, but I don't think it is insurmountable.
