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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 02:52:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: Boston Library Consortium: Letter to The Chronicle on ebook pricing
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From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:24:51 +0000

>If that were the case, then some books presumably would have sold ONLY
>to libraries.

No, that doesn¹t follow. A book that "virtually no one needs to use or
wants to read" may be purchased by a bunch of libraries and a handful of
individuals. "Virtually no one" is an intentionally imprecise phrase. The
question isn¹t whether these books are completely useless to everyone in
the world. The question is whether they offer enough value to a large
enough number of people to justify the cost and effort of publishing them
in the traditional way.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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