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Comment author: pjeby 17 April 2013 08:25:40PM 2 points [-]

I think there are vanity presses that will print on-demand as people order, without a large (or any) upfront payment.

Including Amazon, by way of Ingram. I would actually suggest making this available as a Kindle book (or books) as well, although in that event I would recommend setting the ebook price close to the print price as a quality/value signal. The money can benefit MIRI or CFAR, and as long as the print+ebook offered via Amazon is a different edition than the one offered free, there should probably not be any problem with Amazon's pricing rule oddities.

Comment author: malo 18 April 2013 08:50:40PM 0 points [-]

The plan is to create a PDF, .epub, and .mobi version—just like the Facing the Intelligence Explosion eBook—and make it available on our site, as well as through Amazon and iBooks.

As for pricing we want it to be accessible, so it will either be free or very inexpensive.

Comment author: pjeby 19 April 2013 01:38:56AM 1 point [-]

it will either be free or very inexpensive.

Amazon (rather wisely IMO) has minimum pricing requirements for ebooks, though at the moment that'd be $2.99 for books of this size.

However, from a signaling perspective it's better to have a pricey book that a few people buy and the rest steal, than to have a book that looks too cheap to be of actual value. People also are less likely to read a cheaper book in the first place (even if they bought it) or to apply the ideas therein, since if the author/publisher didn't think it was that valuable, why should they?

Comment author: [deleted] 19 April 2013 02:47:31AM 0 points [-]

Do you plan on enforcing copyright on the extant ebook versions of the sequences?