From: Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:41:05 -0500
Dear Zac Rolnik (and other readers)
Why do you think customers will want to buy the version of record?
This is an honest question, not a challenge. With the types of
reports published on nowpublishers.com , the only advantage I can see
to going and getting a report direct from you is that it will be the
most current version or the most current report on that topic. So, I
can see each pirated report being an advertisement for different
reports on a similar topic, but not a reason to go and buy that same
exact report.
-Wilhelmina Randtke
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Zac Rolnik <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:47:28 -0400
>
> Sorry for the late response to this interesting question, but I have
> been traveling....
>
> In terms of the piracy issue, while it is annoying for smaller
> publishers we simply do not have the resources to fight it. When we
> find a pirated version of one of our titles, we immediately go to the
> source and they typically take it down, for it only to pop up
> somewhere else. Very frustrating. So this is one issue where we try
> and let the big publishers (who have more skin in the game) take the
> lead and we act as free-riders. In addition, there are some who think
> for a small publisher it might actually serve to promote our titles,
> since most of our customers want to buy the version of record and
> those who get pirated copies would probably never buy it anyway - but
> might encourage their colleagues and libraries to look at it.
>
> Zac Rolnik
> now publishers
>
>
> *******************
>
> From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:43:27 -0400
>
> TED talks are very trendy these days, and often very interesting.
> Here's an analytical treatment of the question of financial losses
> through copyright piracy, a video whose URL has been making its way
> around the internet in the last couple of days -- and I shamelessly
> stole the link from one of these several lists:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
>
> This tongue-in-cheek presentation makes me ask: is copyright piracy
> really a problem for scholarly publishers? Subscription journals?
> Monographs?
>
> If so, how would we know how large the problem is? More than that --
> how would we know if it were big enough to worry about? See, what is
> true in the video is that a lot of the estimates of future loss are
> based on a future that isn't known. Anyhow, don't scholarly
> publishers, at least of e-journals, expect some leakage and don't our
> subscription prices pay for that?
>
> Thoughts? Ann Okerson
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