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