Re: University Presses To Publish Books Online at JSTOR

[Sandy Thatcher <sandy.thatcher@alumni.princeton.edu>]

I'm not sure I understand how these new ventures are akin to the 
Big Deal, especially since there are multiple publishers involved 
with overlapping content among the various competitors and all of 
the e-books are probably available for individual purchase 
through other vendors like netLibrary, ebrary, etc.

Sandy Thatcher


>Putting aside the matter of a move to open access for 
>aggregations of monographs, I hope it is clear to the members of 
>this list that we are seeing two important economic trends here: 
>books are being marketed like journals, and an endorsement of 
>the Big Deal approach. Inevitable?
>
>Joe Esposito