So I am looking for information and advice. Any pointers or stories of the experience others may have had with similar ventures would be appreciated. Please email me a copy of any thing you might post on this subject. In any case, surely the paper budget is relatively small for most universities, compared to physical plant, buying journals, etc. Also, many copy centers seem to have a terminal a customer can use to download something he can then print for a reasonable per page fee, so non-students also have access to this material.
Students seem to appreciate it.
I think web publishing and freeware is a wonderful thing, to my mind the principal problem is that the author may have total responsibility for finding any errors in his work. But I have found that readers are pretty good about reporting any errors they do find. So I am looking for information and advice. As soon as the academic world can take charge of the gatekeeper function which publishers currently carry out, the web will be a very natural and useful means of disseminating books. By its nature, however, it seems better suited to glossaries, handbooks, and so on, rather than texts.