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Re: Theos-World Publishing on the Internet.

May 20, 2005 08:11 PM
by MKR


Dear Jerry:

Like the printing revolution which changed the world by making written material widely available to the readers around the world, we have the Internet revolution. Internet is still in its infancy as far as the widespread effective usage is concerned. My thinking is how quickly and effectively can be it used to spread information. All the issues and questions you have mentioned are valid. But there are some extremely distinct advantages in using Internet to disseminate information. We have had an instance in Dallas Morning News, there was a law suit trying to prevent the Newspaper publishing a story. Even before the case could be heard by a District Judge, the Newspaper went ahead and posted it on their website making the law suit moot. Then there are the issues of editorial control or sensorship that can come into play when material has to be printed; in addition to the time delay in the publishing anything in hard copy. Then there is also the cost involved in the publishing process. With today's on-demand printing, any book can be printed at home if you have a fast laser printer so there can be cost reduction and lack of inventory storage. Of course the livelyhood of the author and research costs.

Now we have the Internet tool. My loud thinking is how do one tap the power of Internet to publish and disseminate information. I do not have all the answers; the whole Internet revolution is in progress and I do not think any one of us can predict how it will ultimately develop; what new innovative discoveries and inventions people are going to come up with in the years to come.

One area that has seen development of free access is on-line editions of Newspapers. Most of them are free; some may need registration to enable them to know from where the customers are coming from. Since these piggy-back on the hard copy editions, the publishers are able to make free editions available to Internet users.

When I suggest publishing free on the Internet, perhaps I am coming from an idealistic viewpoint - a situation we may end up in the years to come. In the meanwhile all we can do is to encourage writers to try to publish their material on Internet to the extent they are comfortable and free availability of on-line storage from some of the free websites or interested individuals who have access to storage space. (Some years ago when there was a situation when we we looking for storage space for theosophical materials, there was an offer from a theosophist who had access to storage space to provide free storage space.) I see great potential possibilities in the area of free Internet publications, even though it may take years. In the meanwhile all we can do is to brainstorm for new and creative ideas.

mkr




At 04:00 PM 05/19/05 -0700, Jerry Hejka-Ekins wrote:

Dear Ramadoss, friends,

I have many times seen your message advocating that instead of paper and
ink publishing, everything should be instead published on the Internet.
I have been giving this matter considerable thought and I agree with
many of the ideals behind this notion, such as:
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