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Paper book
- has to be paid
- you don't know user response, feedback is difficult (can setup a mail or so)
- long preparation time
- printing costs
Magazine/Journal
E-book
- can be easily copied, so the price is relative, but can be sold (some newspaper do that daily)
- ~0 printing costs, server costs if you don't want to put in on some sharing system (not the case)
- shorter preparation time than paper
- you don't know user response, feedback is difficult and not encouraged (same as paper books)
- Converting Wiki into pdf has issues. Large images do not fit the book's paper. Hyperlinks to other sections do not work well in pdf. --User:Raindrops 14:34, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Online content
- difficult to be paid
- offers
- annual registration fee for a "paying-user login"
- this would feasible in practise in wiki since special user rights could be given to paying users but could be perceived as an injustice by users
- also, big companies give doc for free (adobe, autodesk, apple)
- web pages
- static contents
- dynamic contents
- based on user input (quizes, feedback in the content)
- based on user experience or not (difficult to do)
- involves a DB, server side scripting and maintenance
- contains video or not
Video
- intuitive, fast
- becomes old very easily
- can be organized in playlists
Audio (Podcasts)
- Not our case I think, but would be interesting
