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It looks like Springer is going to offer 10,000 titles in electronic format by the end of 2006.
"The company has provided a chapter level approach to the e-books, with individual DOIs assigned. The HTML or PDF documents are fully searchable and can be downloadedÂby individual chapterÂand printed. The service allows unlimited, simultaneous access to the e-books. There are no course-pack or other restrictions. A key differentiator is that libraries will own in perpetuity any e-books they buy and can store and archive them locally if they wish. The company hopes this model, combined with attractive pricing, will accelerate the adoption of its e-books in academic and corporate markets."
I like the fact that the material is sold, not licensed, to the libraries but to be honest, I'm still skeptical about the whole e-book thing. Sorry, I just love the printed book.
Thanks Lisa
1 Comments:
Michael,
As you know, I'm with you on the print book thing--but I wonder whether the Springer collection might not be a valuable addition to the "pseudobook" category that NetLibrary and Safari do so well: That is, book-length texts where expected use is of a few paragraphs, a few pages--not reading the full text.
In such cases, digital delivery with or without reading from the screen makes a good deal of sense.
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