Re: What is wrong with this picture?

[David Goodman <dgoodman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>]

More likely, they tried it and found it too slow or too expensive. Does
anyone really think that publishers can possibly survive economically if
they permit libraries to offer truly rapid document delivery unless it
will pay them as much or more than conventional journal subscriptions?
(That does not mean that a hybrid model might not prove more flexible and
more generally satisfactory. But if it works well it cannot possibly be
any less expensive overall.)

As I and so many others have said before, the only real solution is a
drastically less expensive means of producing the material in the first
place.

David Goodman, Princeton University
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Tom Sanders wrote:

> Apparently none of them have been informed about the options of ILL or
> document delivery either.