Google Book Settlement Market Analysis

["B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>]

Michael Cairns, former president of R.R. Bowker and Managing Partner,
Information Media Partners has published a paper titled "Database
of Riches: Measuring the Options for Google's Book Settlement 
Roll Out."

An executive summary is at: http://bit.ly/cB2NgY

The full report is at: http://bit.ly/aA5VrX

And a Library Journal interview with Cairns is at: 
http://bit.ly/c2IY0C

The LJ article notes: "In a paper titled 'A Database of Riches: 
Measuring the Options for Google's Book Settlement Roll Out,' 
Michael Cairns, former president of R.R. Bowker and Managing 
Partner, Information Media Partners, offers some informed - 
though admittedly not definitive - analysis of 'the potential 
market opportunity that the Google Book Settlement could 
represent.'"

Among other things, Cairns estimates that 47% of the 9198 public 
libraries in the US will subscribe, at an average price of 
$21,000, and that 65% of academic libraries would subscribe at an 
average price of $55,000. (Library Journal asked him to explain 
those estimates).

Bernie Sloan