Re: Open Access Academic Publications
"M. Sean Fosmire" <[email protected]>
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I would see nothing wrong with widespread *paid* distribution of law reviews and other periodicals via the internet. Such a service could be very cost-effective and still make some money for the sponsoring law schools. Paper and binding boards constitute a major obstacle to access. If a current subscriber has to pay $57.50 per year for eight issues of the Harvard Law Review, at least $35 of that amount (to WAG it a bit) is paying for printing presses, paper, and delivery systems to get a paper version in my hands. Would the normal user pay $25 per year to get an electronic version, bypassing the presses and the mail, and in the process getting a searchable version that takes up no shelf space? Would librarians prefer the electronic version for those reasons? You bet. And I would bet that far more people would subscribe at the lower prices. If the HLR sells 1,000 copies of each paper version @$57, it could probably sell 2,000 e-versions @$25, and maybe 8,000 @$10 per year. The math results in: paper - maybe $22,000 in net revenue after expenses e-version at $25 - $50,000 e-version at $10 - $80,000 And for the e-versions, the expenses are negligible. M. Sean Fosmire yclipse technologies Marquette, Michigan [email protected] http://www.yclipse.com ---------------------- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/dpFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -/-/-/-/-/ There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal applications: http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks -/-/-/-/-/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Network-Lawyers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: Network-Lawyers-unsubscribe-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@public.gmane.org <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/