open access and book sales

The machine crashed and I lost a much longer version of this post that I don’t care to reconstruct at the moment.

The upshot was that someone in the publishing industry sent me the sales numbers on Prince of Networks, and those numbers suggest so far that the free PDF of the book on the re.press website is not cutting into paper book sales, and may even be enhancing those sales. But it’s still a bit early to draw sweeping conclusions. Nonetheless, a positive start on that front.