I’m not a professional librarian either…

Well, three chapters of the book–two in rough draft stage–are available for download, in recent issues of Cites & Insights.

Right now, I need to get a better sense of whether it’s economically feasible to publish books this way–whether I can get enough sales to justify the time investment. Downloadable copies raise other issues–and, of course, they’d be pure PDF designed for printing.

I may make the book available for downloading later. Not right now; it adds complexities that I’m not currently prepared to deal with.

Have you checked the Lulu site? You can always fill out the order and cancel it if the shipping cost is too high. It says Asia & Pacific Rim should be 10-20 days (plus the 3-5 days for manufacturing) for economy shipping, 5-7 days for standard shipping. The book price itself is the same. I know that people have been receiving it in Europe with no difficulty, although Indonesia is admittedly not Europe.

I was wondering why you had chosen (as far as I can see) not to enable people to download a copy of your book (for payment). I am currently living and working in Indonesia, and I couldn’t even imagine the time and cost to have the book shipped down here. If there was an online version, I might consider buying it. (I know you are sceptical to reading online, but with a tiny ibook it’s feasible – not ideal but when far away from sources of printed books I’ve read a bunch of Creative Commons books, fiction and non-fiction, in my bed, on my laptop).

If not, I guess I’ll wait till I’m back in Toronto and hope that the Library and Information Studies library has picked it up.

Thanks
Stian