[Foundation-l] PediaPress

Sun Nov 14 19:17:43 UTC 2010

On 13/11/2010 22:14, phoebe ayers wrote:
>
> The crux of the question seems to me to rather be who and how we
> directly partner with, and what services do we offer to readers (and
> contributors) by such partners through the site itself. In the case of
> PediaPress, it's fairly low-key; what you see in the sidebar is
> actually a link to the "book creator" tool, which is extension code to
> make a collection of pages that can then be generated as a pdf. It is
> only after you click through and do this that you are offered a link
> to "Get a printed book from our print-on-demand partner" and a link to
> PediaPress appears. People are quite free to create a pdf collection
> and never send it to PediaPress, which wouldn't generate a dime for
> them, and my instinct is that this accounts for the majority of the
> tool's use.
>

Knowing which articles people are keen on collating is valuable economic 
data, regardless of whether the actually print a book. With that 
knowledge you have a greater incite into whether a collection is going 
to sell, and whether to invest some resources in improving the articles.