Re: Interview w/Sarah Pritchard, Univ. librarian, Northwestern U.

["Hutchinson, Alvin" <HUTCHINSONA@si.edu>]

The technology should come down in price as quickly as it has for 
other technologies.

Pretty soon these things become commodities and you start finding 
old, dusty electronic devices in the back of your desk drawer or 
your glove compartment.

44 year olds who love romance novels is a distinct market, but a 
much more fast-growing and robust market is those who are 
under 25 and who have read more text via electronic display 
than on paper.

And if we're talking about university presses, I'd say the latter 
are more likely users.

So I'd say Joe is right.

Just my 2 cents.

Alvin Hutchinson
Smithsonian Institution Libraries


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From: Quincy Dalton McCrary <qmccrary@gmail.com>
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Interview w/Sarah Pritchard, Univ. librarian, Northwestern U.
Date: Mon,  7 Jun 2010 19:04:16 EDT

You know they said the same thing when microfiche was
invented...give me a 2 dollar kindle and maybe...

But a 400.00 iPAD is just not going to sway the 44 yo mother who
loves her romance novels.

Lets see the technology come down in price and then maybe, maybe
we will see a rise in digital formats.

Till then open publishing is going to be unfundable over the long
term, imho.

Quincy