Hi,

thank you for all your responses!

Yes I would buy a PDF version and would most definitively not post it on some P2P site. I also believe the Folk community does not go into large scale (i.e. P2P) sharing of that kind of content but there will be some who does it anyway. However I would still recommend an online version, since on the whole there are more people willing to pay for good music than those who would steal it. Considering that Andy doesn't make any money from the book now it would definitively be a plus :) I believe the trick is to make the online versions cheap enough that people prefer the "feel good" factor of paying the author and getting a bargain at the same time. Since the money can go directly to the author there are no publishing costs and such. The cheaper end price does not have to mean less money for the author.

I also find the Print-on-demand idea a good one. This company was bought by Amazon:
http://www.booksurge.com/
Since I am not a publisher I don't know how much of the cake these firms take for themselves, but again something must be better than nothing.

With kind regards

Matthew