I’m guessing that the publisher doesn’t want it freely available, and the authors expect the prestige from a conventional publisher to bring in more readers (or more high-status readers) overall.
Smart, I hadn’t thought of that. A quick Google search says maybe publishers let you publish online after the print copy is out, but not before? Could there be an online copy of IABIED in the future? (Or maybe I’m wrong, I know so little about publishing that I can’t even sanity-check what I think Google is telling me.)
I’m guessing that the publisher doesn’t want it freely available, and the authors expect the prestige from a conventional publisher to bring in more readers (or more high-status readers) overall.
Smart, I hadn’t thought of that. A quick Google search says maybe publishers let you publish online after the print copy is out, but not before? Could there be an online copy of IABIED in the future? (Or maybe I’m wrong, I know so little about publishing that I can’t even sanity-check what I think Google is telling me.)