Re: Wiley-Blackwell Adopts Condense and Rotate Printing Process for Select Journals

[Pippa Smart <pippa.smart@googlemail.com>]

summarising the (few) responses to the question of whether the 
print-and-rotate format is acceptable the feedback was as 
follows:

*no positive comments were received, however only a few negative 
comments were received, mostly saying that publishers should 
either continue print as a readable, archivable format, or 
dispose of it altogether. One respondent suggested that if the 
print was being retained as an archival format, then perhaps an 
even more reduced format should be used - such as the microcard 
format onto which about 8 pages are reproduced on a piece of card 
for viewing on a bespoke reader.

*From the level of responses I am deducing that this is not a 
issue of high importance, and although librarians may not like 
the print-and-rotate format, it does provide an "adequate" 
product that can be used (or discarded for the e-journals).

thanks to the folks who responded.

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Pippa Smart
Research Communication and Publishing Consultant
PSP Consulting
email: pippa.smart@gmail.com
Web: www.pspconsulting.org