Re: Sustaining on-line book sites
- From: NakedWord@[redacted]
- Subject: Re: Sustaining on-line book sites
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 21:00:12 EDT
> I scanned and released Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and
> hardly a day goes by when I don't get an email from someone thanking me for
> releasing it on the web. At one site I know that it has been downloaded
> 1800+ times in all six volumes.
At the opposite extreme, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Erewhon were each
downloaded on average about 1000 times a month for four years from The Naked
Word. 100,000 readers. None of the them has ever even written to me about it.
Jim Weiler
The Naked Word