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Introduction: Eric Tassone writes: I [Tassone] had to Google “ Mary Rosh ” but remember that imbroglio now. Made my day, too. But really I wanted to write to ask you about something related to Bill James. I first encountered his works at age 13, when a baseball coach talked up his books and lent me one (that I fear I never returned). I then read his Abstracts from ’84 or ’85 until they went away, and then some of his other books in the ’90s. Anyway, my question is: Do you know if these works are available on a CD or DVD-ROM or the web something, like they do sometimes w/ collections like Mad Magazine or the New Yorker cartoons or whatever? Maybe through his website, to which I do not subscribe? (By the way, Google Books produces search results for the ’83-’87 editions, but at most just little clippings, not the full book or anything.) I wonder why we don’t see more of this, since the marginal cost of re-packaging and distributing already-created content for which there is at least some pent
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1 Eric Tassone writes: I [Tassone] had to Google “ Mary Rosh ” but remember that imbroglio now. [sent-1, score-0.077]
2 But really I wanted to write to ask you about something related to Bill James. [sent-3, score-0.144]
3 I first encountered his works at age 13, when a baseball coach talked up his books and lent me one (that I fear I never returned). [sent-4, score-1.108]
4 I then read his Abstracts from ’84 or ’85 until they went away, and then some of his other books in the ’90s. [sent-5, score-0.37]
5 Anyway, my question is: Do you know if these works are available on a CD or DVD-ROM or the web something, like they do sometimes w/ collections like Mad Magazine or the New Yorker cartoons or whatever? [sent-6, score-0.648]
6 (By the way, Google Books produces search results for the ’83-’87 editions, but at most just little clippings, not the full book or anything. [sent-8, score-0.203]
7 ) I wonder why we don’t see more of this, since the marginal cost of re-packaging and distributing already-created content for which there is at least some pent-up demand would seem to be low. [sent-9, score-0.683]
8 I mean, there’s at least some intense “long tail” interest from folks like me in, say, the ’81 edition to see what he had to say about the ’80 Royals. [sent-10, score-0.551]
9 They could price gouge me all the way to making this sort of thing profitable, I would think! [sent-11, score-0.098]
10 Isn’t this what the Internets is supposed to be good at? [sent-12, score-0.091]
11 Personally, I prefer the physical books, but I agree that they’re not searchable. [sent-13, score-0.172]
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