From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:43:57 +0100

It depends, surely, on the type of book.   Reference/text book chapters may
sometimes stand independently.  Other types of book may only make sense read
as a whole and in the correct sequence

Sally

Sally Morris
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From: "Hutchinson, Alvin" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:08:40 +0000

If book chapter indexing and discovery became as standardized as
article-level discovery, I wonder if we would begin to se the
dis-intermediation of chapters from their "parent" books just as we are
seeing articles being sold separately from journal subscriptions.

I can imagine users identifying, paying for and downloading chapters instead
of purchasing (or asking their library to borrow) the book.

And aside from the bibliographic citation listing the book title in which
the chapter appears, they might increasingly be treated as distinct
publications.

Just a thought . . . .

Alvin Hutchinson
Smithsonian Libraries