Ongoing Saga of an Open Access Book
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"Google Book stats for the 12 months of 2009 report that 6,814 people viewed the book, saw 105,679 page views and 148 clicked through to “buy the book”. Now of course we don’t know how many of those folks actually typed in their Visa number, but the click through of 2.17 % of viewers compares favorably with the 1.5% I reported last year who purchased after reading or downloading electronic copies from the AU Press site. This data indicates to me that – Google Books is great (at least for academics)...."