Re: Yes, it's time (RE: Is it time to stop printing journals?)

[David Groenewegen <david.groenewegen@lib.monash.edu.au>]

Actually, there are signs of the consumer market moving that way, 
as this article about Premiere shows:

<http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/premiere-mag-dies-but-lives-online/>

Note that this is not the only title in this stable going online.

David Groenewegen
ARROW Project Manager
Monash University Library
Monash University
Victoria 3800  AUSTRALIA
David.Groenewegen@lib.monash.edu.au


adam hodgkin wrote:

> A rather delayed response to this thread, which I found very
> interesting. It has been leading me to puzzle out why the consumer
> magazine market has not gone in the same direction (at least it has not
> gone there yet)
>
> http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2007/04/journals-and-consumer-magazines.html
>
> I have also been wondering why a similar aggregation solution 
> for consumer magazines, seems so unattractive. Can one imagine 
> a Science Direct for all the major consumer magazines? It would 
> be a rather monstrous compilation, but does that not tell us 
> something about how much the big research libraries really 
> wanted/needed solutions like Science Direct? Only with big and 
> efficient aggregators such as Elsevier could the STM library 
> world have moved so quickly towards an electronic solution for 
> their patrons. Libraries are of course vastly more important to 
> the STM market than they are to the consumer magazine 
> publishers.
>
> However, it seems likely that there is some role for comprehensive
> aggregation services for digital books and digital magazines. Adam