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Re: CBC and Liblicense list
At 04:18 PM 4/12/98 -0400, you wrote: >The following message, my first here, is a wake up call of sorts - be it a >bit on edge and "counter culture" to what I'm seeing in this discussion. Dear Mark, Well done, your opinion on the anti-business slant of some of the commentary from librarians. Many of the comments in the lib-list reflect naive thinking that gives a bad name to a good liberal arts education. I am in a similar situation, being a small publisher of academic titles, and I am continuously amazed at the demand of some librarians that I become a non-profit organization because any behavior otherwise is morally suspect. Yet these same librarians complain about the difficulty with ordering from small publishers, how we should use an aggregator, become part of a major distributor chain, and must discount single copies because of the inconvienience we cause them with a small order. Add to these reasonable requests that we provide our titles for next to free, do not offend the eye with advertisements, use the browser software they personally approve of, and place no restrictions on access or use. As the Internet and e-pub medias are purportedly an equalizer for small publishers, how come so few small publishers manage to survive producing quality titles? That answer must address the maturity of market.. which to no small part is the librarians. To them I say, show some purchasing discrimination, critical analysis of quality (both content and delivery media), and put your money where you mouth is. Like you, I have a very liberal policy of giving away CD-ROMs to teachers and worthy educational organizations. On one title of ours, the "Darwin CD-ROM", I have given away over half as many as we have sold. This title has received many exceptional reviews by scholars (not computer magazines), and how many libraries have purchased a network license? ZERO. Why do academic libraries subscribe to Time, Newsweek and People anyway? All they seem to record is the failure of journalism. Pete Goldie **************************** * Pete Goldie, Ph.D. * * President * * Lightbinders, Inc. ****** * 2325 Third Street - Suite 324 * * San Francisco, CA 94107 * ********************************************* * Internet: pg@lbin.com http://lbin.com * ********************************************* * Voice: 415-621-5746 Fax: 415-621-5898 * ********************************************* *** NEW! DARWIN Multimedia CD-ROM - The Collective Works of Charles Darwin on CD-ROM (2nd Edition): http://lbin.com/darwin/ *** NEW! Orchids of the Tropical New World CD-ROM: http://lbin.com/orchids/
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