Free Access and Increased Sales
Michael Jensen,
Stockholm, November, 2002


NAP E-Commerce
Experiential Conclusions


  • The "Rule of the Non-Optimal Version" holds generally true; printed pages are still the preferred reading medium
  • PDF emulates print; therefore PDF competes with print
  • HTML competes less strongly with "optimal version" (print)
  • Some publications' impact greater via digital than print
  • Open Web access brings us browsers, which brings us customers
  • For our kind of publishing, open access is a necessity.


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